How to use display units

The Display Units button in the Home > Settings sub-strip opens the Display Units form, which you can use to set the display units for your solution and change the measurement and numerical format associated with each of the listed quantities. The selections you make here affect many areas of the application, from object and property creation, through the workflows, and into a number of the results displays and interfaces.

How the display units work

The Display Units interface contains a number of quantities that are closely tied to the property types listed in the Property Catalog. Specifically, each property type can have an associated unit. All properties in the application associated with a certain property type are interpreted using the unit attached to that property type. All values in the user interface are displayed based on the setting of each unit.

Example

The Cell Center Depth (the depth value at every cell center) property is attached to the Depth property type. This property type is attached to the unit name Depth & Elevation. The default units for Depth & Elevation are feet, which are displayed in various places:

  • The JewelExplorer – property classes
  • The 3D View – the property legend
  • The 3D View – the axis

When you change the settings for Depth & Elevation, the display of all properties attached to this quantity, like Cell Center Depth or thickness, change accordingly.

Changing display units

You can change display units in multiple ways.

Using the Display Units form you can change display units individually or together as a system of units (Field, Field/UTM, Metric, SI).

  • To set all display units together to a consistent system of units such as Metric, click on the Reset Display Units... button and select the system required. For more information, see Default Unit System.
  • To set a specific display unit, click on the unit name in the Quantity column. This will activate the bottom part of the form, where you can select a display unit and format from the relevant drop-down lists.
  • Click on the Reset Distance to CRS Unit button to set the distance display unit to the official horizontal unit (coordinates unit) of your solution CRS. You may want to do this to, for example, display a map with the correct coordinate values for the solution CRS.

Another way to change display units is on the individual forms throughout the application, where the respective quantity is displayed. When changing a display unit this way, you are changing the display unit for that quantity throughout the entire application.