Is there a way to set the default numeric properties? For instance, I pretty much always like my numeric controls, indicators, and constants to be shown with SI prefixes. I find it much easier to read when dealing with large or extremely small numbers. I'm sort of sick of constantly having to open the properties of every numeric I drop to display as type "SI Notation". I usually try to copy other numerics if there is one of the type I want readily available so that i can avoid the extra steps of opening the properties, but it would be nice to set this in options to just be able to quick drop "nc", "dc", ..., etc without having to manually go in and change the property every time I do drop one. Is this an option I'm missing/cant find, or should I put this to the idea exchange? Thanks

LabVIEW

numeric constant/indicator/control default properties

@BertMcMahan wrote:

@billko wrote:

The only thing about SI units (for me) is that I can never remember how to type µ so I end up doing .001m instead.

Alt+0181 gets you a µ, but the SI indicators in LabVIEW don't actually support µ's so you just type a regular "u". If you actually try to type a µ in the field then nothing happens.

Wow! You learn something new every day. And I didn't even notice that it displays a conventional u until I made the font really huge.

Bill

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