Defining a New Unit

In addition to the predefined units in JaamSim, new units can be specified using a Unit object.  A new Unit object can be created by entering the appropriate Define statement in the configuration file (see Section 8).  For example if a new TimeUnit called ‘Fortnight’ is required, then the define statement would be:

Define  TimeUnit  {  Fortnight  }

All Unit objects have the same input keyword:

Unit Key Inputs

Keyword

Description

ConversionFactorToSI

Two numbers that specify the numerator and denominator, respectively, of the multiplicative factor to convert from the new Unit to SI base units.

For example, for the ‘Fortnight’ time unit (two weeks) defined above, the ConversionFactorToSI keyword should be set as follows:

Fortnight  ConversionFactorToSI  (  1209600  1  }

Once the new unit is defined in this way, it can be used with any input that requires that type of unit.