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Centerlines in drawings

Centerlines in drawings

Centerlines in drawings

(OP)
How do I create centerlines in drawings for holes? I know how to make centermarks, but not centerlines.

RE: Centerlines in drawings

mkmech

Under insert; annotations; centerline, or by picking the centerline icon on the annotation toolbar.  You can create centerlines by picking two parallel lines.  This will put a centerline between the two lines you pick.  When the centerline is there you can select it and drag the ends as far as you would like.

RE: Centerlines in drawings

On the side view of the drawing you must select the 2 lines the make up the circle, the on the annotations tool bar select the centerline icon and it will place the center line between the 2 lines you selected.

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RE: Centerlines in drawings

(OP)
There is no centerline icon/button on Annotations toolbar, though there is Centermark. Is this feature only available in recent versions? I am using 01+

RE: Centerlines in drawings

Try this.

In your 2D drawing add a layer called Centre with line type set to Centre and a designated colour (similar approach to AutoCAD). Make this layer active. Draw a line using the sketch line icon tool (or Tools/sketch entities/line).

I recall doing this when I used SW2001+. My drawing templates are set up this way and I have successfully used this approach ever since, including SW2005, when I require centrelines.

Eddy

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