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KarenMoore1-Visitor
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October 4, 2010
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Tolerance on displayed dimension symbol @S in drawing

  • October 4, 2010
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I have changed a dimension's name to "L" for length and used @S to display it on the drawing. Is there a way to display a symmetric tolerance I assigned to the dimension?

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    ScottPeterson1-Visitor
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    October 6, 2010

    Karen, I do the same thing you mentioned, quite a bit.

    When you use the @S symbol, tolerances can not be shown on the drawing as edited in the dimension editor. This is the functionality of the @S... to show the symbol. I add a couple lines of small text that shows the tolerance, and position it next to the dimension symbol. This works well. Be sure to group/attach the text to the dimension, so when the dimension moves, the text moves as well. Also, you need to make room for the text inbetween the shown symbol and the leader lines... so add a few spaces after the @S in the text editor box... this will space out the leader lines to make some room.

    Obviously, the above is not a great solution, but hopefully this is not done on a lot of dimensions for you, and for the few dimensions it is used on, its ok to have a tolerance unrelated to the driving dimension from the model. Hope this helps.

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    KarenMoore1-VisitorAuthor
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    October 6, 2010

    Thanks for the answers which are what I figured. Looks like the only way is to add text in the properties dialog. At least I could set the tolerance in the properties as well, but they will not display.

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    ScottPeterson1-Visitor
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    October 6, 2010

    Correct, you can definitely set the tolerance in the properties dialog, it will just not display.

    And i should make a correction from previous... you can definitely add text in the properties dialog box that will show up in the drawing... i need to add text separately and relate that to the dimension in order to get a plus/minus tolerance to show correctly (plus value above the minus value, both to the right of the dimension). You do not need to do this, unless you want to show plus/minus tols the same way.

    Would be nice if the tolerances could still be shown when using @S.

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    Kevin1-Visitor
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    October 7, 2010

    You can add the tolerance in the dimension text properties (no need for a separate note) by placing the tolerance values within @+...@# for the upper tolerance and @-...@# for the lower tolerance. Without including a space between the groups (looks like @+...@#@-...@#) the upper tolerance will be placed above lower tolerance.

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