(Contributed by Eric Engelmann)
One thing I found out that was very helpful as I
went about cleaning up the dimensioning on my drawings was that a dimension
on a circular figure could be moved to a different location about it. This
feature came in handy when I had many diameters stacked on top of each other
vertically along one of the datum planes. It allowed me to separate them
and orient them differently with respect to one another so that the drawing
became easier to read. It also helped in identifying the diameter of the
cut that rounded off the hexagon, because it allowed me to place the dimension
line between two of the visible rounded surfaces, rather than between two
points on the circular cut that were not seen in the drawing. The procedure
for doing this is as follows:
- Create or retrieve a dimensioned drawing.
- From the Drawing menu, select the
Detail option.
- Once in the Detail menu, select
the Mod Attach option.
- You will now be prompted to "Pick a detail
item to move attach", so use either Query Select
or Pick to select the dimension you wish to move about
a CIRCULAR feature of the drawing.
NOTE: This command only works for moving
dimensions about features in a drawing that actually APPEAR circular.
For this reason, if you try to select a dimension for a part that you
know is circular but it is on a view that doesn't actually show it as
a circle on the screen, the computer won't allow you to use this feature!!
- Once you have selected the dimension to move attach,
simply use the mouse to "rotate" the dimension about the circle.
(As you will see, the dimension line, the leader line, and the dimension
itself all are moved as a unit in the Mod Attach, unlike
when using the move feature to attempt this, which doesn't allow you
to change the position of the dimension line.)
- When the dimension is in the new location desired,
hit the left mouse button and it will be placed there.
- You should now be able to continue.
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