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Dimensions shall be kept fully associative
« on: June 25, 2004, 11:54:45 AM »
do not edit dimensions:

this means editing the text <>
or changing precision of dimension

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Re: do not edit dimensions
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2004, 12:45:47 PM »
Quote from: eloquintet
do not edit dimensions:

this means editing the text <>
or changing precision of dimension

Hi eloquintet, I fully agree.

Can I suggest you edit your post's title to read "Dimensions shall be kept fully associative"? Thanks. :)

Edit: You did, thanks! :)
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Re: do not edit dimensions
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2004, 12:58:03 PM »
Quote from: eloquintet
do not edit dimensions:

this means editing the text <>
or changing precision of dimension


I believe that when editing existing dimensions, angle brackets ( <> ) display indicating that the default dimension text is used. This is done so that you can still have associative dimensions with additional text.
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2004, 01:18:12 PM »
I don't think Dan meant that one should not ADD a prefix or suffix, just DON'T edit the <>......we dim to the nearest 1/16 here.  Exception would be drill&taps ... instead of editing the DIM to read 7/32, we pick the dim and, in the properties dialog, edit the number of decimal places from 4 to 5....16ths to 32nds.
Simple! And it is still an accurate, associative dim.

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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2004, 04:15:24 PM »
You can right click on those dims and set it to the precision.

If your company has a standard dimstyle w/ precision defined it should ALWAYS be used, do not explode dimensions, OR override dimension text that indicates the dimension length.
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2004, 10:44:07 PM »
Our company standards dictate that over-riding a dimension value with a different value WILL result in disciplinary action.  It just isn't done here.

There are case where the <> are entirly replaced with a note of some kind like "FOR THIS AREA SEE ENLARGED PLAN BELOW" or something.

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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2004, 12:28:17 AM »
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Our company standards dictate that over-riding a dimension value with a different value WILL result in disciplinary action.  It just isn't done here.

There are case where the <> are entirly replaced with a note of some kind like "FOR THIS AREA SEE ENLARGED PLAN BELOW" or something.


We will do the same type thing .... similarly we will use a dimension length with a prefix and/or suffix to denote the placement and/or identification of a beam.

i.e.

W10x30 STEEL BEAM 50Ksi MIN (<>;)

Essentially this defines the item, gives it's length and shows the tolerance for diversion from the stated size.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2004, 11:11:34 AM »
On the RARE occassion that a dimension must be fudged (i.e. the drawing just won't fit in allocated space) our office standard requires the addtion of a "N.T.S." (Not To Scale) annotation.

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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2004, 11:55:10 AM »
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On the RARE occassion that a dimension must be fudged (i.e. the drawing just won't fit in allocated space) our office standard requires the addtion of a "N.T.S." (Not To Scale) annotation.
Fudging dims around here for any reason will draw the ire of the CAD Manager (me). If it won't fit in the allocated space, get more space, paper is cheap, errors are not.

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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2004, 01:49:50 PM »
You've never had to draw a detail which had to be at a scale large enough to read the detail in the drawing (1" or 1-1/2":1'-0") and some part of it was too long to get into the sheet size used for the set of drawings?

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2004, 05:49:45 PM »
Like what OU-CAD says, when you have to dimension across a break line in an object.

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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2004, 12:35:20 AM »
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You've never had to draw a detail which had to be at a scale large enough to read the detail in the drawing (1" or 1-1/2":1'-0") and some part of it was too long to get into the sheet size used for the set of drawings?
Nope.  I'll break up the detail before fudging a dim.  Heck I'll make a whole nuther drawing first.  Usually, I just change the scale of the detail.  Around here, fudging a dim is unacceptable.

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« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2004, 12:35:55 AM »
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Like what OU-CAD says, when you have to dimension across a break line in an object.
We don't.

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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2004, 08:13:27 AM »
Another case of different worlds. Some of us are dealing with a 24"x36" real world sized object while some of us are dealing with an object that covers MANY square miles. There's no way I can draw a map with associative dimemsions. Unless you want a REALLY big piece of paper. The mind boggles at trying to envision the size of the plotter. i would hate to be the one to load the roll of paper.PAPER CUT !!!!  OOOOOWIE!!

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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2004, 11:58:24 AM »
With a long object like a shaft we cannot show it all in a dwg because it is too long and too small to see.  We then have to blow it up and show a break line in the middle.  The dimension line of the overall shaft, by dim rules, has to contain a break symbol.  That dimension has to be exploded or non-asso in order to add break symbol on the dim line.