Ordnate Dimension in a Projected Aux View NX 7.5

[DieMan44]

I have a projected aux view that with a tooling ball that I am trying to dimension from. I've tried to dimension in expand view however I cannot align the dimensions properly from the points that I pick. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[JohnRBaker]

In a normal 2D drawing, dimensions are measured relative to the face of the drawing, not the orientation of the geometry so even if you set the origin and orientation of the Ordinate reference (and even then you'd need to create two Ordinate schemes, each with only one active baselines, one for one direction and one for the other since the view is not octagonal), the values shown would be incorrect.

The best that you could do would be to use PMI to define the Ordinate origin and orientation, define all of your needed dimenisons and then add that view and its PMI objects to your drawing oriented so that it meets your aux view requirements, which is how I created this view:

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[DieMan44]

I did get it to work however I did it a different way before you responded. I orientated the WCS to match the surface angles in the expanded view and moved it to where I wanted my zero to be and did the rest at normal. The key to my issue was moving the WCS to the zero. It worked but your method may be better.