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Templates settings question

Templates settings question

Templates settings question

(OP)
Before I started working at my current job, it was a free for all for how 50+ people created drawings. Everyone kind of used the same templates (A size, B size, etc) but pulling up old drawings, all the setvars are different from drawing to drawing for whatever reason.

I created a standard set that we will use but because of the legacy data, we still do ECN's to old drawings. What I have told them to do is start a new drawings, insert the proper size template and then drag over the part from the old template to the new one.

My question is;
The new template has a .1 set for tolerances since that reflects the ISO tolerancing. On some drawings, we use 2 and 3 decimal places. When I drag over the part with dimensions, it changes 82.55 plus/minus 0.15 to 82.6 plus/minus0.2. How can I retain my originalnumber of places? On the drawing, I have 1,2 and 3 decimal places shown.

We cannot insert our new template into an old drawing because none of the setvars will transfer over.

Thanks in advance

RE: Templates settings question

Could you use a different DIMSTYLE in the template? Maybe rename the old dimstyle?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

RE: Templates settings question

I agree with borgunit.  Any legacy items brought into the current drawing will be modified to match the current version.  This is true for blocks and dimstyles.  Rather than having to constantly rename the old dimstyle when imported, could the current dimstyle in the new template be renamed?   

RE: Templates settings question

(OP)
I might not have given enough information. The old drawings are using "standard" as a style with romans as the font. In the new template, it is just the same. The dimension overrides are the same after bring it over.
dimension style: "STANDARD"
dimension style overrides:
 DIMGAP      1.000
 DIMLIM      Off
 DIMRND      0.000
 DIMTFAC     0.650
 DIMTM       0.150
 DIMTOL      On
 DIMTP       0.150

If I did not explain it well enough, IN the old drawing, I have two dimensions right next to each other. One has been changed to 82.55 plus/minus .015. The next dimesion is 64.2 plus/minus 0.3. Every dimension on the drawing is not 2 places. I am trying to figure out why the setting don't carry over as far as one dimension being 1 decimal place and the other having 2 decimal places

  

RE: Templates settings question

Do you not need three dimstyle settings, one with the primary units set to one decimal place, one with it set to two, and one set to it with three?

RE: Templates settings question

If the dimension text has been manually changed, the text override will never follow the style.  The style only works for dimension text "<>".

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