Drawing formats and templates

[vmunos]

I am trying create a drawing template for part files which will automatically place views, snap lines, dimensions, and all other information possibly contained within a part file (welds, GD&T, section views, datum planes, etc.). The goal is obviously to reduce the amount of time spent creating drawings and hopefully to improve drawing quality.

Some other things I would like to know are how to control the # of decimal places given to each dimension (for tolerancing).

Thanks ahead of time!

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[Dale_Rosema]

http://communities.ptc.com/message/206967#206967

This may help for formatting.

[TomD.inPDX]

You control the default number of digits in the part/assy file using config.pro option default_dec_places <n>

You can further change the decimal places by editing the properties of each dimension that is not the same as the default.

I prefer to leave my model decimal places set to 4 so I can see more accurately what is being modeled. I then choose the accuracy as appropriate on the drawing by editing the drawing annotation.

You have to be careful when setting the decimal places to low as some calculations will round the number of decimal places and what you thought was .1875 is actually .19 due to a rounding when you typed 3/16 in the dialog. Really scary!