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Dimensions on broken views are easy enough. Simply break your view and create dimensions normally. One can also create dimensions on the full view and break it afterward. If your break omits a feature you are trying to dimension, those dimensions will fail.
One thing I've noticed is that ordinate dimensions are NOT broken view friendly. They will often give paper value rather than model value. The only consistent work around I've found is to create all the dimensions using "baseline dimensions" and then with the entire group highlighted, convert to ordinate.
Good morning,
I recall seeing drawings in which long things were shown in a broken view,
with a spline defining the break. I know this can be done in Pro/E. However,
I also recall the dimensions spanning the break being interrupted, with a
sort of zig-zag in line with the break. This is not so simple in Pro/E,
unless I am missing something.
Is it possible to accomplish a break in a dimension, ideally with a zig-zag
across the break?
Is this practice non-standard?
Should I just accept the unbroken dimensions Pro/E offers and let the
machine shop worry about whether the dimensions point out that there is a
break there?