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DGDave Gage11/08/2016

Ok,  the reason for this post is I just made a simple mistake, and it kinda made my company look stupid.

I'm in the thermoforming business, so we measure our products in grams, and our tools in kg.  I make many more tool components than products, so my drawing templates are set up for [Weight: $PRPSHEET:"Weight"kg], with "Weight" -> "SW-Mass@@part.sldprt".  I manually changed the "kg" to "g" in the drawing, as I often do, but I later changed the sheet size, forgetting that I would have to reset the weight units again.  Our official drawing now says that our small plastic product weighs over 100kg...

Is there a way to link the units as well, such that the set up would read something like  [Weight: $PRPSHEET:"Weight" $PRPSHEET:"WeightUnits"], with "WeightUnits" -> "SW-Mass-Units@@part.sldprt"?

I've been searching the internet, but I can't seem to find an answer.  So, I've been playing with the annotations (SW-Mass-Units, SW-Unit-Mass, etc...) to see if one works, but the results have been fruitless.

It seems like such a simple thing, linking the parts' units to the drawing, but I cannot figure it out...