Topic: How often do you edit dimensions (value, tolerance, arrows, etc.)?

[Maverick®]

You look a little bit blue yerself there clownboy!   

And practically no one fears me.   

Even the rabbits in my yard stare at me with disdain, totally unimpressed. 

[Shinyhead]

Man, and your a spawn clown too.  I am so sorry....   

[Willie]

Changing the actual values of dimensions is also one of the trademarks of a brain dead cad monkey...

[Josh Nieman]

Changing the actual values of dimensions is also one of the trademarks of a brain dead cad monkey...

No argument there!

The only times we did that was for in-house fab shop drawings at a company that had "bad" drawing practices.  Then again shop drawings are a whole other breed.  Some things are deliberately not to scale.

[Shinyhead]

Indeed, I learned it early on when I had to revise some drawings done by one of our *supposedly* best drafters and the then cad manager (no longer employed here), I was extremely green as a drafter and barely knew autocad. I was trying to stretch this stupid drawing to a field dimensioned size the overall would stretch, but the dimensions in the breakdown wouldn't.  The math didn't work and I didn't even know it was possible to override dims.  The boss was yelling and hollering because I was taking so long.  I learned real fast what was going on and how to fix it though.  It did not take long for me to move into that persons postion, which was amazing to me to start as a green cad operator, then 9 months later be cad manager, I thought it was a compliment, heh, more like they knew they had a sucker for the job! 

[David Hall]

Very very rarely, and then only if I cant make the drawing work without editing it.

[mkweaver]

I don't edit dimension often beyond grip-edits.  For those times I do edit, I have the following routines to automate 99%.

DimSE instructions

dse -    Dimension Suppress Extension lines
   Each pick of a dimension cycles through possible combinations
   of suppressed extension lines.  Use this to turn off dimension
   extension lines so that underlying centerlines show.

dsa -    Dimension Suppress Arrows
   Each pick of a dimension cycles through possible combinations
   of suppressed arrows.

dsh -    Dimension Stack Horizontal toggle
   Toggles stacked horizontal fractions on/off

dino-    Dimension INches Only toggle
   Toggles dimensions from inches only to feet and inches

dwd -    Dimension Width Dynamic
   Select a dimension then use the + and - keys on the numeric
   keypad to dynamically decrease and increase the width factor
   for the dimension text.  This width factor is applied as an
   mtext format in the dimension text override.

dth -   Dimension Text Horizontal toggle
   Toggles horizontal location of dimension text, from first
   extension, to centered, to second extension.

dsro -   Dimension suffix RO (Rough Opening)
   Adds \XRO to the dimension suffix as a style override

dspm -   Dimension Suffix Plus/Minus
   Adds %%p to the dimension suffix