How to get Characteristics from Rounding?

[[Si...]]

Hi,
So in the Features (Pencil) Settings, I can turn off Rounding. But when I run a program the characteristic round up. I have a job that only requires 2 Decimal places. When I have a result of 1.2183 only care is the 1.21. But it gives 1.22 and is a failure. Our customer does not care about the 3rd place and does not want to see the red on the report. I can not seem to find an option to stop the final measurement from Rounding up/down.

Is there an option for that?

Thanks in advance.

[[De...]]

I doubt there is an option to avoid rounding, I know in ASME Y14.5-2009 rules for rounding are stated as I have shown below, I would bet other standards also have rules for rounding. My guess is if this is something you want to do you will be stuck finding a method to do it with PCM using formatL or formatR or something as there is really never a good reason why you would want to drop significant digits without rounding unless your goal is to purposely give less accurate results.

If a dimension is a two place dimension. that does not mean that the 3 digit is simply thrown away, after all a
two place value of 1.12 might as easily be 1.121 or 1.129 clearly both are much closer to 1.12 and 1.13 respectively.

In ASME Y14.5-2009 section 1.6.4 it references ASTM SI 10-2002 when determining how to round numbers.

The relevant section from ASTM SI 10-2002 states the following..

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B.6 Rounding values
When rounding to fewer digits than the total number available, proceed as follows:

a) If the first digit discarded is less than 5, do not change the last digit retained.
For example, 3.46325, if rounded to four digits, would be 3.463; if rounded to three digits, 3.46.

b) If the first digit discarded is greater than 5, or if it is a 5 followed by at least one digit other than 0,
increase the last digit retained by one unit.

For example 8.37652, if rounded to four digits, would be 8.377; if rounded to three digits, 8.38.

c) If the first digit discarded is exactly 5, followed only by zeros, round the last digit retained upward if
it is an odd number, but make no adjustment if it is an even number.

For example, 4.365, when rounded to three digits, becomes 4.36.
The number 4.355 would also round to the same value, 4.36, if rounded to three digits.

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[[Si...]]

Ok thank you.

As I mentioned, its just a visual thing. The customer care not of what the results are, they just don't like the color red... haha.

[[Aa...]]

You could change the tolerances so that it doesn't show red. 🤬

[[An...]]

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[[Ja...]]

Or you could make sure only green ink cartridges are in the printer.

[[Aa...]]

How can I get my hands on some of those green cartridges? 🤠