Format Distance Units

Use the Distance Units dialog to enter the name of the distance unit and define the format of the unit. The name is shown within the selection list for distance units.

Ways to access

• In the Tilos Explorer, expand Project Data > Distance Axis Definitions > Distance Units and double-click an existing distance unit.

Options

• Short name - Serves the purpose of internal explanation of the distance unit and must not be necessarily entered.

• Factor - With the factor you define the relationship between the unit to be created and the (base) unit with factor 1 . E.g. creating a unit "kilometer" you have to set "factor 1000"  while the unit "meter" is related to factor 1

• Long name

• Format type - Here you define how the unit will be formatted.

• Format - You type in a number format how you wish to monitor the value in the next field.

• Miles Chains Yards - The values are formatted showing first miles, then chains and yards. The smallest unit is here yards.

 2500 yards = 1m 33c 14y.  1 Mile has 1760 yards, while a chain has 22 yards.

 Miles Yards, same as Miles Chains Yards but chains are skipped.

 2500 yards are 1m 740y

• Format - here you can type in 0, decimal separator or #.

 0.## means, print decimals only if they are not 00.

 0 hide decimals

 0.00 show always 2 decimals

• Special decimal separator - Here you can select a special decimal operator for printing.

E.g., m in km are often shown as 1+350.E.g. In Pipeline, you want to show 100 feet separated by +. Unit is then feet. You define a unit 100 feet, Factor = 100 and define + Symbol. The coordinates are shown in 542+00 format.If not defined, then the standard windows separator is used.

• Special thousand separator - Same as above as a decimal separator.

• Use in intervals - Should the distance unit be offered in the list for distance scales and grids as an interval?

• Use in distance tokens - Should the distance unit be offered in the list for distance tokens?

• Non-decimal - Using non-metric formats you can show the rest in non-decimal values.

 E.g., The base unit is yards and we want to show miles. The factor is 1760.

 2640 yards = 1.0880 if option non-decimal is set. (Format 0.0000)

 2640 yards = 1.50 if option non-decimal is not set. (Format 0.00)

• Take rest only - show only the decimal part of the distance coordinate. This value can help to make sophisticated scales. Besides the scale, there is no real usage for this.

Assuming you do a scale based on 1 mile and yards is the base unit, in a further scale, you want to show the yards. Create a new unit called yards in miles and activate this option. In the second scale, you now insert this token.

• Rest divider - Assuming that you want to show the value in Chains in the field sample, then input here 22, this means chains are shown.

• Samples - If you enter a number in the Sample field, you will see a preview of the format set.