Double dimensions

[Tofflemire]

Hi All,

I am embarrassed about this question, but for the life of me, I can not remember or find the drawing set up or config.pro setting to stop the ability to double dimension.

Can you please tell me…?

Tofflemire

 

[3dlogix]

In Drawing> SetUp > Adv, select the "dual_dimensioning" option to anything but "NO". Pick the one that you need.

Try our config.pro Mentor (at

http://www.3dlogix.com),

it has all the settings and explains them as well (200 release for now).

Steve

http://www.sprdesign.com

http://www.3dlogix.com

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Steve,

The problem that I have is that the same dimension is showing up twice on 2 different views, or if I call out hole with a counter bore, the counter bore dimension shows up in both places.

Tofflemire

 

[Guest0527211403]

Tofflemire

Chances are that these two dimensions are unique.

The rogue dimension may belong to a hole that is "behind" the one you are detailing. I usually have to clean these dimensions up and make a relation linking them to the actual shown dimension, and then change the appropriate hole note to indicate how many of these holes there are.

As far as I know, Pro/E won't let you show the same dimension twice unless you manually add it to another dimension's text as a parameter like @d99.

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Justkeepgiviner,

The funny thing is that one of the problem dimensions is d99. I am using &d99 not @d99, when I used to add a hole depth to a hole using &d that dimension would then disappear and only show up were I called it up. There weird thing that I have is this in now not happening. There seems to be something funny going on, because I do agree with you that ProE will not let the same dimension show up twice, but it is...

Tofflemire

 

[Guest0527211403]

Did you make the model?

It's also possible that someone had worked on a drawing of the same part and created a driven dimension somewhere. That's happened to me before.

When you show the dimensions, how are you doing it? If you use "Feature and View" in the Show dialog box, and you pick the hole, you should see the dimension just once.. If you see two, one may be a driven dimension left there by someone else (generally bad practice, but I've done worse to get drawings out the door by 5 )...

And you're right about the &d99, not @d99.. I knew it was one of the two

 

[3dlogix]

In the drawing mode, make the 2 similar dimensions appear. Select SWITCH DIMS, and note the dimension names (like d85...and so on).

Go back to the model, and select RELATIONS, and the SHOW dimension icon (next to the "?" icon).

Enter the 2 dimension values and see where they appear on the model. From there, you can see what's wrong with it.

Steve

http://www.sprdesign.com

http://www.3dlogix.com