diff --git a/src/Base/QuantityPy.xml b/src/Base/QuantityPy.xml
index f4c487157b38..7eb0edfabf69 100644
--- a/src/Base/QuantityPy.xml
+++ b/src/Base/QuantityPy.xml
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ Quantity(string) -- arbitrary mixture of numbers and chars defining a Quantity
 		</UserDocu>
 		<DeveloperDocu>Quantity</DeveloperDocu>
 	</Documentation>
+    <Methode Name="toStr" Const="true">
+      <Documentation>
+        <UserDocu>
+          toStr([decimals])
+          returns a string representation rounded to number of decimals. If no decimals are specified then
+          the internal precision is used
+        </UserDocu>
+      </Documentation>
+    </Methode>
     <Methode Name="getUserPreferred" Const="true">
       <Documentation>
         <UserDocu>
diff --git a/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp b/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
index a1e3f1f7e2e6..cf3079f6ed92 100644
--- a/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
+++ b/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
@@ -55,6 +55,25 @@ std::string QuantityPy::representation(void) const
     return ret.str();
 }
 
+PyObject* QuantityPy::toStr(PyObject* args)
+{
+    int prec = getQuantityPtr()->getFormat().precision;
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"|i", &prec))
+        return nullptr;
+
+    double val= getQuantityPtr()->getValue();
+    Unit unit = getQuantityPtr()->getUnit();
+
+    std::stringstream ret;
+    ret.precision(prec);
+    ret.setf(std::ios::fixed, std::ios::floatfield);
+    ret << val;
+    if (!unit.isEmpty())
+        ret << " " << unit.getString().toUtf8().constData();
+
+    return Py_BuildValue("s", ret.str().c_str());
+}
+
 PyObject *QuantityPy::PyMake(struct _typeobject *, PyObject *, PyObject *)  // Python wrapper
 {
     // create a new instance of QuantityPy and the Twin object