Inspection oval ANSI standard with tabulated dimension

[yanceman]

Hello All,
While in a tabulated drawing, some dimensions are represented with characters because the part is configured (in multiple lengths, for example) and the character represents a changing dimension and is an inspection dimension. When overwriting an inspection dimension in Solidworks "<DIM>" with a character "A" ("A" represents a column in the tabulation chart) and there is text below <DIM> such as TYPICAL, SolidWorks shifts the inspection oval to the lowest line of text. In this case the word TYPICAL is enclosed, and not the character representing the dimension.

My question is, is this a bug in the software or the ANSI standard like my software provider says? I read the posts from thread 174-53176 (circa May 2003) and was wondering if anyone had this problem? I'm new to this as this is my first post. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[drawoh]

yanceman,

This is more of a SolidWorks question than an ANSI question. You should post in the SolidWorks forum.

My quick and dirty answer to you is that you should not be using "TYP" or "TYPICAL" on your drawings. ASME Y14.5M-1994 does not permit this anymore. You need to indicate the number of features where this is used, eg.

5X A.

This text all fits on one line, which might solve your problem.

JHG

 

[yanceman]

Thanks Drawoh,
We didn't know that usage of TYP was not current standard.
I'll try my post in the Solidworks forum and see if anyone there has run into the same problem.
Thanks,
Yanceman


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