Metric Explicit

This command creates a metric signal explicitly.

Metric_Explicit /RESULT_METRIC_NAME= Name of the resulting signal ! /RESULT_METRIC_FOLDER=PROCESSED Name of the resulting folder /METRIC_VALUE= Component Value(s) ;

Previous versions of Visual3D labeled this command Explicit_Metric

Example

This example will create a metric signal with 3 component values of 1, 2, 3. The resulting signal will be named NEW_SIGNAL and be located in the OFFSET folder.

Metric_Explicit /RESULT_METRIC_NAME= NEW_SIGNAL /RESULT_METRIC_FOLDER= OFFSET /METRIC_VALUE= 1+2+3 ;

Result

Expressions

In early implementations of this command the values in Metric_Value were a list of components you wanted the metric explicitly set to (see example above), and expressions were not allowed.

In version 6 Metric_Value can be an expression, but this may lead to some confusion.

For example,

Metric_Explicit

! /RESULT_METRIC_FOLDER=PROCESSED

/RESULT_METRIC_NAME=X

/METRIC_VALUE=1

;

Metric_Explicit

! /RESULT_METRIC_FOLDER=PROCESSED

/RESULT_METRIC_NAME=TEST

/METRIC_VALUE=METRIC::PROCESSED::X+1

;

The processing results for the second command are:

Metric Name : METRIC::PROCESSED::TEST

Metric Expression : VECTOR(METRIC::PROCESSED::X,1)

Metric Value : 1.000000 , 1.000000 ;

The second command be re-written as follows:

Metric_Explicit

! /RESULT_METRIC_FOLDER=PROCESSED

/RESULT_METRIC_NAME=TEST

/METRIC_VALUE=Add(METRIC::PROCESSED::X,1)

;

The processing results for the third command are:

Metric Name : METRIC::PROCESSED::TEST

Metric Expression : Add(METRIC::PROCESSED::X,1)

Metric Value : 2.000000 ;