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Working with Alternate Units
The Alternate Units tab displays a list of Alternate Units for an object. Alternate units are a way of defining a different unit for an object other than its default unit. For example, for a part that has a default unit of “each”, you can define an alternate unit of “box”, where one box is equal to five parts.
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To enable Alternate Units you must first set the Alternate Units Tab Display preference. This preference can be found in the Preference Management Utility, at the Site level, by navigating to PSE/MPMLink specific preferences.
Alternate units can be applied to the following objects:
Parts
Process Plans
Operations
Sequences
The Alternate Units tab attributes that appear in the table are described below:
Attribute
Description
Unit
The name of the alternate unit being used for the selected object.
Numerator
The original designation for the unit; for example, if a part has a default unit of “each” the numerator could be one.
Denominator
The alternate designation for the unit; for example, if a part has a default unit of “each” the denominator for the alternate box unit could be five. The alternate unit of one box then, would be equivalent to five parts.
Available Actions
The following table explains the actions available from the toolbar on this tab:
Alternate Units Task Tool Bar
Icon
Action
Description
Add
Opens the New Alternate Unit window where you can create a new alternate unit for the selected object.
Remove
Removes the alternate unit from the selected object.
Column Details
Opens the Column Details window, which can be used to configure the columns displayed in the table.