markborges
Mechanical
- Nov 26, 2003
- 56
Hi All,
I have a customer who requests that all the dimensions be shown in the drawing and not added at the drawing level. Which is fine for most parts and it is nice for our customer to be able to change a part dimension from the drawing; however, often on castings or larger assembly drawings, I need to add dimensions and I usually create cosmetic sketches w/ the needed dimensions and then "show" these dimensions in the drawing.
This all takes alittle more time and these cosmetic sketch dimensions, are not parametric and, therfore, no different then just adding the dimensions on the drawing.
Does anyone else have similar requests from there customers?
My experience w/ dimensions on the drawing is that they sometime do not display on the screen and a refresh or change and change-back of the layer status will restore the dimensions. Does anyone else have the same problem and is there a fix to this?
Why else would the customer request this? I know I should ask them; but we have been going down this road for a while and....
What concerns me is that we are starting to make this practice standard for all of our customers and I do not see the merit of it. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks
Mark
Wildfire 2
I have a customer who requests that all the dimensions be shown in the drawing and not added at the drawing level. Which is fine for most parts and it is nice for our customer to be able to change a part dimension from the drawing; however, often on castings or larger assembly drawings, I need to add dimensions and I usually create cosmetic sketches w/ the needed dimensions and then "show" these dimensions in the drawing.
This all takes alittle more time and these cosmetic sketch dimensions, are not parametric and, therfore, no different then just adding the dimensions on the drawing.
Does anyone else have similar requests from there customers?
My experience w/ dimensions on the drawing is that they sometime do not display on the screen and a refresh or change and change-back of the layer status will restore the dimensions. Does anyone else have the same problem and is there a fix to this?
Why else would the customer request this? I know I should ask them; but we have been going down this road for a while and....
What concerns me is that we are starting to make this practice standard for all of our customers and I do not see the merit of it. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks
Mark
Wildfire 2