Sketcher Dimension Location in Creo 2.0

[msteis]

I tend to have to make a lot of complicated sketches in Creo. Does anyone know if there's a config setting to lock the dimension placement within a sketch so all the dimensions do not pile on top of each other as shown...

Thanks

Matt

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[TomD.inPDX]

This really needs an idea for a button in sketcher to offset dims. Developers have gotten really messy with their readability and clarity of sketches.

My peeve is with the leaders... why can they break a linear dim leader but not for angles?

And why do perimeter dims drop a half mile outside the frame fo the part? And why do angle dims zoom exponentially when normal dims don't? Seriously... it use to be better!

[TomD.inPDX]

What version are you using? You must be showing annotation, which I don't think has much to do with how they are placed in sketcher.

[msteis]

Antonius,

I'm using Creo Parametric 2.0. I don't know what you mean by "showing annotation" other than within a drawing. The screenshot is of a sketch of a revolution. I do show constraints in my sketches if that's what you mean.

One would think that if you move dimensions around in a sketch, that they would stay there. Mine tend to move around. The sketch in the screenshot has at least twenty diameter dimensions in it. I didn't pile them on top of each other, Creo did. It gets old having to move ten different dimensions in order to pick the one you want.

It would be really nice if you could highlight a dimension by picking a leader.

I'd like to think that the most crucial part of the software would be pretty much perfected in 20 years.

Matt

[TomD.inPDX]

Interesting Matt. Somehow your sketch attributes are different than mine. For instance, the open leader on the 135 degree dim, and the line weight of the dimensions. I am on Creo 2 also, and it is certainly different.

I don't think I have ever had all those diameters stack up except when they are 1st generated by the intent manager. once I move them, they pretty much stay moved but still dependent on zoom states.

[TomD.inPDX]

Okay, this is freaky! Now my angle dims -do- have a gap around the text!

You can see by my earlier image, this is -not- the norm for me.

[msteis]

I'm going to have to pay closer attention to when it happens. It is definately weird.

[TomD.inPDX]

Never mind, it only shows the gap when you activate the "sketch view" so the sketch is normal to the screen.

Linear dimensions and diameter dimensions maintain their gap while angle dimensions don't.

This is worth reporting to CS it annoys me terribly!

[TomD.inPDX]

Remember that this is 4 minutes and 13 seconds of your life that you will -never- get back

[msteis]

Thanks. Thats 4 minutes 13 seconds I'll spend on chasing accuracy.

[TomD.inPDX]

Customer service assigned an SPR to the angle dimension behavior. I added the fact that this problem also existed in editing angular constraints (assemblies) or angle dimension in features (parts). Fixing it in one place should solve it in the others.