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J.Wagner12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
November 25, 2011
Question

Switch the position of a dimension of a chamfer

Hello Dear ProE Users,

does anybody have any posibility to switch the position of a shown chamfer dimension on a drawing from vertically to horizontally or vice versa?

Greeting from Germany

Jens


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BrianMartin13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
November 28, 2011

Hi Jens...

I wasn't able to get the dimension to be totally vertical. I tried numerous drawing options (File>Drawing Options) without much luck. However, by editing the dimension properties I was able to move the dimension parallel to the leader line which cleaned up the look a bit.

My suggestion would be to continue playing with the properties as shown below. Maybe one of the options gives you what you're after. Click the image below for a larger picture.

chamfer_props.png

Of course... if you want to get a little creative, I was able to get a parametric chamfer note to be truly vertical... but I used a NOTE feature instead of a shown dimension. For the value of the dimension, I used the dimension name (the parametric dimension name). See the slide below...

chamfer_props2.png

Hope that helps!

Thanks!

-Brian

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J.Wagner12-AmethystAuthor
12-Amethyst
November 30, 2011

Dear Brian,

Thanks for your answer. But we here in Germany have to display the chamfer dimensioning as follows.

Chamfer.JPG

Here the dimension is in a horizontal position and we need it in a vertical position as follows.

Chamfer_1.JPG

The last picture was made by changing the dimensioning sceme to "Angle x D" and adding the 45° as a Note, but we want to have it out of the box, not modified with note.

Thanks - Jens

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MikeMinsterkett1-Visitor
1-Visitor
November 30, 2011

Jens,

As you show in your pictures is exactly how I have been doing this for a long time. Sometimes on holes i do cross sections & add two dimensions one for the angle & the other for the depth. Are you wanting to have the dimension automatically add the angle dimension also?

Mike

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