Thousands separator in coordinate

[eth378946]

I would like to make a levelmark with a field that displays the Y coordinate of a point, and need to have a thousands separator. In the Additional Format dialog the Thousands is greyed out when you have a value based on a coordinate.
Is there a work arround to this?

[dkennard]

I have the same problem I've worked out that I need to add %th32 (%th being the thousands separator and 32 being the decimal ASCII value for the space character) to my field expression but I cant find a way to manually edit the field experssion.

[dkennard]

Solution: works for me at least. I'm working with a block with attributes that show the insert point in easting’s and northing’s.

1. Edit the field you want to add the thousands separator to and copy the field expression. For me that gives the following:
%<\AcObjProp.16.2 Object(?BlockRefId,1).InsertionPoint \f "%lu2%pt1%pr2[, E]">%
Which returns the X co-ord of the insert point of the block I'm using followed by " E".

2. Paste that expression into a text editor like notepad, edit it adding the thousands separator value to it, make sure this comes AFTER any suffix strings, so I how have this as my expression:
%<\AcObjProp.16.2 Object(?BlockRefId,1).InsertionPoint \f "%lu2%pt1%pr2[, E]%th32">%

3. Copy this modified expression from your text editor (remember to only select the text) and paste this directly into your text, mtext or attribute. In my case the modified expression is pasted directly into the "Default:" box of the "Edit Attribute Definition" (ddedit) dialog box.

This works on "new" inserts of my block however it does not update the existing blocks which is not a huge issue for me.

Also note that as this is a non standard way of doing things, if at some point I edit the attribute and hit the additional format button AutoCAD will automatically strip the thousands separator from the expression, in which case I end up at step 1 again.

I've attached the block so you can see what’s going on.