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What determines the Batch Size by Weight for the default Recipe Alternate ‘*’? I am seeing behavior I cannot troubleshoot.

My Company is setup to use lb as its Weight Unit of Measure (this should not be a factor, though).

I have a user-defined unit of measure as below. 1 short ton = 907.18474 kg.

My Part uses this unit of measure as below.

My Site is set to default enter recipe by Weight Share.

My inventory part is a Recipe part that uses this unit of measure.

In the Recipe Structure, the alternate ‘*’ that is created when the Inventory Part is saved as a Recipe part shows the Batch Size by Weight = 0.001 ton short.

  1. What does this 0.001 value indicate? Why is this not a 1, i.e. the batch size to start is 1 ton short.
  2. When I try to add components it fails with the cryptic message ‘numeric or value error: character string buffer too small’, so it is not possible to even create a components list to allow adjusting the recipe.

 

Adding on to this post,

When I copy the standard alternate and then change the Weight UoM on this new alternate to ‘lb’, the initial Batch Size by Weight is 2.205. All I can deduce is this value comes from 1 kg = 2.205 lb., but why would this be the initial Batch Size for this alternate? Why is the system maintaining some connection to kilograms?

When I manually create another alternate, the initial Batch Size by Weight defaults to 1, but I can enter any value I want for this and for the Weight UoM before saving.

 

Still looking for ideas on this.

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