Dimensional Measuring Interface
Standard
Standard Improvement Request
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SIR No. 96-6 DMIS Release 3.0 SIR Type Enhancement Severity Prevents Programming Status Resolved Date Submitted November 4 1996 Date Validated November 4 1996 Date In Process Date Referred Date Vote Pending Date Closed August 21 1998 Action Clarifications Submitted By M.K. Holloway Lockheed Martin Energy Systems P.O. Box 2009 Oak ridge TN 37831 USA Phone: (423)574-6756 Fax: (423)574-2328 hollowaymk@ornl.gov |
Problem Topic
OUTPUT: Decimal places on output
Problem Description
A method of specifying the number of decimal places on output is needed. Cannot specify the number of decimal places to format output data.
References
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Related SIRs
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Suggested Resolution
Add a new major word DECPL to specify decimal places. the format of the statement could be: DECPL/linear, angular
Linear and angular specify the number of decimal places to be used for linear and angular values respectively.
Support Documentation
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Resolution
Warning!!
The following statement is only a resolution to a Standard Improvement Request (SIR) and is NOT part of the current DMIS standard, nor is it guaranteed to become part of the next revision of the DMIS standard even if voted and accepted by the DMIS National Standards Committee. This resolution is tentative because it may not be incorporated into the next version of the standard, it could be changed prior to the next release, or it could be changed as the result of the "public review and comment" period required for the next version of the standard. If you choose to use this tentative resolution, you do so at your own risk since at this time it is not part of the DMIS standard.
Create new major word DECPL (Decimal Place).
DECPL
Function: Specifies the number of decimal places to the right of the decimal point to output for specified parameters.
Input Format: DECPL/var_1
Output Format: DECPL/var_1
Where:
| var_1 can be: | ALL,var_3 |
| or: | var_2,var_3 var_4 |
| var_2 can be: | ANGLE |
| or: | DIST |
| or: | HUMID |
| or: | DEV |
| or: | TEMP |
| or: | VEC |
| var_3 can be: | DEFALT |
| or: | n |
| var_4 can be: | ,var_2,var_3 var_4 |
| or: | does not exist |
ANGLE Signifies angular output parameters.
DEFALT Signifies the default DME number of digits to the right of the decimal point to be used for the selected output parameters.
DEV Signifies selection of tolerance and deviation output parameters.
DIST Signifies selection of linear output parameters.
HUMID Signifies selection of humidity output parameters.
TEMP Signifies selection of temperature output parameters.
VEC Signifies selection of vector output parameters.
n is the desired integer number of digits to the right of the decimal point to output for the selected parameter.
The DECPL statement is passed through to the output file when executed.
Note: Applies to both vendor report and DMIS output.
Note: DEV sets the decimal places for ANGDEC and ANGRAD and for ANGDMS sets the precision of the arcseconds.
Attachments
96-6_DECPL_SIGDIGITS.DOC (21.0 KB)
MS Word 97 for DECPL
Notes
Added by Mike Holloway, hkm@ornl.gov on 7/30/1998
This SIR is currently held by the enhancements subcommittee (see DNSC meeting notes from 4/10/97 - Gaithersburg). Perhaps its status should be in process. Their solution seems more complex than is necessary (appendix of meeting notes). I think that my initial solution is adequate; however, an alternate may be:
DECPL/var_1
where: var_1 can be: ANGULR,n or: LINEAR,n
ANGULR sets the decimal places for angular values that are output LINEAR sets the decimal places for linear values that are output n is the number of decimal places to be output
I can also see the need to specify the number of places for vectors and temperature. Also, existing minor words such as ANGLE and DIST could be used.