How do I find dangling dimensions in a large drawing document?

[Muttzy]

I have a large drawing document (60 plus pages) of one large assembly and many sub-assemblies. I changed a part in one of the sub-assemblies and when I went back to the main drawing file it asked if I wanted to delete the dangling dimensions. I don't want it do delete them, I want to find them and change them myself. How do I do that?

 

[SBaugh]

You will have to look through the pages for those ugly brownish yellow dimensions and that is how you find them... not the best method, but it works.

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[Muttzy]

That is what I do now. With 1,112 dimensions it gets very tedious. Is there a better way?

 

[ctopher]

Split up the subassy's and parts into their own drawings.
Otherwise, per Scott's suggestion.

Chris, CSWA
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[Muttzy]

Darn

 

[handleman]

If this is something you have to do a lot, a macro could find them for you.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[Jboggs]

A tip that helped me a lot - go to Options, Colors. Scroll to Dimensions, Dangling. Edit the color box to bright red or some other easily distinguishable color. That way you won't have to look so hard for them. They will pop out. I do not understand why Solidworks chose that non-descript brown color for such an important element as dangling dimensions.

 

[CADFlyer]

You can also set up the design checker to detect dangling dimensions. It will list them for you, and then as you click on one of the items, it will zoom to the dangling dim

 

[DanStro]

I make my dangling dims a really obnoxious color (bright magenta) so they stand out like a sore thumb. Then it is a relatively quick scan to make sure. That default color for the dangling dimensions is too close to the color of 'normal' dims for my taste.

Han primo incensus