Dimensioning-please help???

[ercegs]

Hi, does anyone know how to set strict distance between an object and dimension line? As You know in mechanical engineering there are some rules when You want to dimension something. So, one of that rules is that the distance between first dimension line (also the distances between multiple dim.lines when they are one above the others) must be 10mm (or some similar, but it must be equal between all of them). Does anyone know how to do this?

For example, if I want to dimension one horizontal line, I will use command DIMLIN and then first select one point of the line, an then the other.Then when I want to pull dimline up on the certain distance I dont know what that distance is going to be. So, I first must to offset the line that I'm dimensioning to the certain distance and then to pull dimension line. That is a hard work when you have complicate drawing.

I'm using ACAD 2007. I heard that this problem is solved in 2008 ver. Is thath true? Anyway I need this option in ver 2007.

Thanks for help

 

[thalon]

ACAD2008 makes spacing between dimensions easy, however I don't see anything to position the first dimension line relative to anything.

However in 2007 you can accomplish this with object snaps and object tracking.

Set you snaps to whatever is most convient, and turn on osnaps and otrack.

For your first dimension. Create the dimension normally, but when you get to the point of placing it, hover over a snap point of the object you want to distance you dimension line from. Then move the cursor in the direction you want to go. The otrack should display near you cursor. Then type in the distance you what and hit Enter. for subsequent dimensions follow the same steps and simply use the previous dimension line as the base you snap and track from.

I hope this helps.

 

[borgunit]

AutoCAD Mechanical does this of sorts but it does not do this by an exact amount. It does it by taking a base snap and setting the first dimension at least the base dimension away from the object (at a given snap interval) and then placing the remaining dims at the determined space. It works basically like a snap, so it is just like mentioned above. Usually that works best so that dragging a dim can be set by snaps rather than trying to keep some dim relative to another at times.

Using AutoCAD Mechanical 2006, UGNX4, XPsp2, MSOffice 2K3

http://mechcad-insider.blogspot.com/

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"

 

[ercegs]

Thanks I did it with osnap.