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pgress1-Visitor
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October 7, 2010
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Drawing Dimensions not showing proper decimal places

  • October 7, 2010
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OK, here's a new one for me. Suddenly I cannot change the decimal places in my drawing. This is WF5. See attached:

screenshot

After I click OK, it still views as "0.5". Another strange thing, The scaling is incorrect. This is a "B" size drawing, with the part .500 high at a scale of 100.00, the view should be 50 inches in height, why does it fit. I had to do this because when I inserted the view it was just a pin dot. I tried re-creating the drawing under a new name, but the same thing. Maybe I should try recreating the model.

Anybody have any ideas where else I should look?

Paul












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Paul Gress
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Rad Electronics Inc.
3122 Expressway Drive South
Islandia, NY 11749
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pgress1-VisitorAuthor
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October 7, 2010
OK, it was quick. The culprit, I created a new drawing template. The drawing units were set to "mm". Strange, I never use "mm" and it wasn't the default "inches". I set the units to inches, my drawing view then became monstrous, and I reduced the scale to 5.000. Now when I create a dimension it's 3 decimal places. It ends up the two issues I was having were related.

Thanks all for your quick help.

Paul





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mlocascio1-Visitor
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October 7, 2010
Mr. Paul Gress,



Did you SHOW that dimension? Or did you CREATE that dimension? IF that
dimension is coming from the MODEL it should be rather easy to change the
number of decimal places.



I noted that this is a "ad22." That tells me that this is an ADDED
DIMENSION. You need to check your drawing settings. There is something that
is overriding the dimension places.



The other thing I would SERIOUSLY consider is SHOWING the MODEL DIMENSIONS
instead of adding them. Why would you want to waste time adding dimensions
when you can get them from the sketcher?



Michael P. Locascio


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ptc-1153141-Visitor
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October 7, 2010

I can think of two possible reasons.

1. The person who created the model wasn't smart with the dimension placement/parents.

2. Company standards dictate using Created (added) dimensions.

In Reply to Michael Locascio:

Why would you want to waste time adding dimensions
when you can get them from the sketcher?

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ptc-19327451-Visitor
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October 7, 2010
This maybe weird, but if the .5 was actually mm scaled 100 times, this
would make the part appear approx 2" tall on the drawing.



Secondly, showing model dimensions may not always work in all scenarios.
Design intent dims may not always work well for manufacturing.





Christopher F. Gosnell



FPD Company

124 Hidden Valley Road

McMurray, PA 15317
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pgress1-VisitorAuthor
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October 7, 2010
On 10/ 7/10 02:29 PM, Michael P Locascio wrote:

> Why would you want to waste time adding dimensions when you can get them from the sketcher?
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I've been doing it this way for 14 years. Whenever I tried using Show-Erase (now under Annotations in WF5), the dimensions never show in the right view and I never could move them over, so I've grown accustom to adding dimensions.


Paul








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Paul Gress
President
Rad Electronics Inc.
3122 Expressway Drive South
Islandia, NY 11749
(631) 243-7707
(631) 243-7708 Fax
www.rad-electronics.com
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StephenW23-Emerald III
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October 7, 2010
Like clockwork, every so often, the ol' shown vs. created dimensions debate raises it's ugly head. Poor Paul, he had such a good question and wham, blind-sided by theoretical discussion. (Note to self: carefully edit any thing I post so as to make it impossible to tell if it's created or shown dimensions.)

Here's my rule, I use shown dimensions when I use shown dimension and I use created dimensions when I use created dimensions. How's that for the perfect rule that I NEVER EVER violate for any reason what-so-ever, except when I build a dimension from lines and notes or import a drawing from autocad. I'm a rebel.


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lylebeidler1-Visitor
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October 7, 2010
At the risk of reigniting the age-old, tired debate, sometimes sketcher
dimensions, paired with constraints & design intent, simply are not
sufficient for the drawing.



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Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
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pfariello1-Visitor
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February 6, 2013
The following config option sets the number of decimal places shown with a created dimension.

sketcher_dec_places "number"

Patrick Fariello
CommScope
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AndyHermanson14-Alexandrite
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February 6, 2013
I believe it was a post by David Haigh. Here is the link.

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kjohns1011-Visitor
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February 7, 2013

this is not a setting in Creo 2.0, it has the the red circleand the line thru?

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