How to customize the date format in a 2D drawing?

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How to customize the date format in a 2D drawing?

A: Default Date Format

The default date is the similar to system long date & long time, as shown in figure 2 and 3.

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Follow these steps to make the customization of date format.

(1) Hover your cursor over the BOM table, then double-click the title of the date column to define the column type.

(2) Change theoption to.

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(3) Define the equation. Attribute name and attribute value must be inputted.  You could click the icon in the lower right corner to choose the needed variable.

(4) Add the suitable suffix to customize the attribute format, such as.%d(s)>

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(5)  Update BOM table to get the result, as shown in the image below.

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Some frequently-used expressions for customization of attribute format are listed in the following table.


Expression

Result

Date

<TVpart_startdate%D(L)T(S) >

Tuesday, August 10, 2016 5:31 PM

<TVpart_startdate%D(S)>

8/10/2016

Precision

<TVPart_Volume%0.2>

104.98 mm 3

Size

&"X"& &"X"&

30X140X180