Hole Note - Changing Decimal Seperator on Thread Pitches

[PafecDOGS]

Hi - we are currently revamping our CAD drawing standards to the latest BS8888: 2013 standard, one of the main changes is that the decimal seperator is no longer a point, but is instead a comma. We've managed to change this easily in Inventor in most cases, but one place we cant seem to change is the Hole Note when it shows a thread pitch (see pic below). We can't seem to find a setting anywhere - anyone know where it is please? Using Inventor 2014.

[salariua · Accepted solution]

The only way I got this going was to edit the thread.xls in design data folder.

I am having hard feelings about it, I don't know how that's going to affect Inventor; I am thinking ifeatures, iparts, content center items .. etc.

Did you changed your regional and language settings in control panel as well? or you don't want that as a general windows behavior?

Edit:

You need to edit "Custom Thread Designation" column.

[PafecDOGS]

Thanks for that! Will have a look at editing the xls file, but there are already a few things in the latest BS spec Inventor does not easily support (such as spaces between groups of 3 digits e.g a dim of "4000" should be "4 000", a dim on "0.3125" should be "0.312 5").

No, we dont want our whole system to show this change! We'll just stick to Inventor/AutoCAD for now! 🙂

[salariua]

I hate doing this sort of changes. It can have bad impact on the whole functionality of Inventor. We haven't changed completely to BS standard, playing it safe for now.