Dimension Styles

[LesPaul82]

In our company, our dimension standard is Imperial inch, with two decimal places, leading and trailing zeroes removed, with the inch symbol (&quot added. I can set the zeroes removed and the two decimal places as a default but the inch symbol will not automatically be applied to new dimensions. I set the units to decimal and imperial. When I use ft-in as the units the (') and (&quot always show up. What I do now is I made a dimension favourite with the (&quot added after the <DIM> but you have to select this everytime you create a dimension. Maybe there is a way to set this as the dimension favourite default or maybe the (&quot can be added by default somewhere else. Thank you.

 

[ctopher]

I believe the standard is all dimensions are in inches, unless otherwise stated. Therefore you do not need to show the inch marks. They can also be miss-read if the dwg is reduced.

 

[LesPaul82]

I know but we use metric drawings as well and they don't have 'mm' after each one so this is a way to instantly recognize a drawing as imperial.

Sean Nutley
Carmanah Design and Manufacturing
Vancouver, BC, Canada

http://www.carmanahdesign.com

 

[ctopher]

Dimensions that are secondary are displayed in (), and a dwg note indicating what type they are. This minimizes wording with the dims. This is pretty much standard throughout industry.