
Preferences
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8.5 Units Preferences
Unit Preferences allows you to see, manage and create the units used by the equations. Each
unit has a description, a base subunit and possibly several other subunits. For example, the
unit DC current has Amps as its base subunit and milliamps and microamps as other subunits.
The base subunit is listed first. Each subunit has a description, symbol, and a scale and
offset. The scale and offset are used to convert values from the base subunit to other
Note that you cannot edit, delete, or remove factory units and subunits. Also, if you need to
use a special character, such as "
for the symbol, click on the Map of
Characters in the Subunit form to pop the standard character map. From the character map,
you can copy the symbol and paste it into the Subunit form. Note that not all symbols can be
Enter the Name of the category unit.
Enter the Description and Symbol for the base subunit. For the Symbol, you can select
an existing one from the drop-down list or you can enter your own. The Scale and
Offset are automatically set to 1 and 0 respectively.
To delete a unit and all its subunits, click on the drop-down list to select the unit
in the confirmation dialog box that pops up.
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