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

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\\ ;\\

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 ;