Trailing Zeroes

You can control individual values for trailing zeroes in dimensions, tolerances, and property values.

The legacy options Smart and Standard for trailing zeroes are not available for documents created in SOLIDWORKS 2018 and later. Documents created in SOLIDWORKS 2017 and earlier retain these settings with legacy behavior if they are used.

Setting Trailing Zeroes in Dimensions

To set trailing zeroes in dimensions:

  1. Click Tools > Options > Document Properties > Dimensions.
  2. In Zeroes, under Trailing zeroes, in Dimensions, select:
    Smart To maintain trailing zero behavior from SOLIDWORKS 2017 for dimensions, tolerances, and properties.
    When Smart is selected, Tolerances and Properties are not available for selection.
    Show To display trailing zeroes up to the number of decimal places applied to each dimension.
    When Show is selected, Tolerances and Properties are available for selection.
    Remove To remove trailing zeroes from each dimension.
    When Remove is selected, Tolerances and Properties are not available for selection.
    Standard When you select Standard, trailing zeroes behavior for dimensions, tolerances, and properties appear according to the overall drafting standard. This selection is available for parts, assemblies, and drawings created prior to SOLIDWORKS 2018.
    When Standard is selected, Tolerances and Properties are not available for selection.
  3. Click OK.

Setting Trailing Zeroes in Properties

This setting applies to each numeric property value on the Units page of Document Properties such as Mass, Density, Volume, Surface Area, Cost, Center of Mass, and Block Tolerance.

This setting also applies to numeric property values that are displayed in the graphics area or are evaluated in custom properties or other annotations such as notes and tables.

To set trailing zeroes in properties:

  1. Click Tools > Options > Document Properties > Dimensions.
  2. In Zeroes, under Trailing zeroes in Dimensions, select Show.
  3. In Properties, select:
    Show To display trailing zeroes up to the number of decimal places applied to each numeric property from the Units page of Document Properties as well as displayed numeric properties in the graphics area or are evaluated in custom properties or other annotations such as notes and tables.
    Remove To remove trailing zeroes from each numeric property value.
  4. Click OK.

Setting Trailing Zeroes in Tolerances

This setting applies to tolerance values for Arc Length, Chamfer, Diameter, Hole Callout, Linear, Ordinate, Radius, as well as the display of tolerance values that appear within other annotations such as notes and tables.

To set trailing zeroes in tolerances:

  1. Click Tools > Options > Document Properties > Dimensions.
  2. In Zeroes, under Trailing zeroes in Dimensions, select Show.
  3. In Tolerances, select:
    Show To display trailing zeroes up to the number of decimal places applied to each tolerance within the dimension (Bilateral, Limit, and symmetric).
    Remove To remove trailing zeroes from each tolerance (Bilateral, Limit, and symmetric).
    Remove only on zero To remove trailing zeroes from each tolerance when the displayed value is zero. Also, when the value of the displayed tolerance is not equal to zero, trailing zeroes are displayed up to the number of decimal places that apply to each tolerance in the dimension.
  4. Click OK.