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Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

(OP)
Good morning, I have a partial section fron view were I have a 70 degree seat and I have to dimension the diameter of the seat.  NOrmally, in UG I would just use the dim vertical and be done with it in two seconds, but I am not in UG anymore.  I can not get this crazy thing to dim vertical for hell or high water, it keeps giving me angel dimensions.  I have HRL check in the options, but that does not seem to help and help is no help at all and I have been trying everything under the sun sense yesterday noon and nothing.  Does anyone have any suggestions on this bug?  I have hundreds of seats which must be dimensioned so this is a major problem for me.  I am currently running SW2006 sp0.0.  Thank you in advance to anyone for any suggestions or assistance.

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

Do you mean a countersink?

Can you post an image? FAQ559-1100

using Smart Dimension you should be able to select the points at the ends of the "seat" & place the dimension vertically, horizontally or parallel to the angle.


Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

(OP)
Thank you for the response.  I tried both smart and vertical deminsioning.  Here is the path you requested:
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/7964/a6814xi.jpg
I am tring to dimension the 70 degree seat and pull it out to just beyond the .250 MAX dimension.  Thank you again for the help.

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

quest4k,

Are you picking the lines when you dimension?  Try picking the intersection points where the lines intersect the bottom surface instead if the lines themselves.  You should get a linear dimension that way.

Timelord

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

Also if you dimension the model sketch with the dimensions you want shown in the drawing, you can Insert > Model Items > Dimensions > Marked for Drawing


Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

(OP)
Thank you again for the response.   Success.  Thank you, Timelord, that did the trick.  I don't use the Marked for Drawing, because I send a lot of time deleting then because I need to see thing outputed differently that whart is in the model.  SW has me wasting enough time as it is, but let's not go up that road.  Thank you to all that helped out.

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

To take a line from a famous movie "You must unlearn what you have learned".

You have to unlearn the UG way and learn the Swx way. I'm in the opposite boat trying to learn the UG way after doing it the Swx way. They have similarities but little differences that will drive you mad. And you're constantly thinking "this wouldn't take 5 seconds in "cad x"...argg.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

(OP)
Thank you for that tip, Jason.  Want to swap jobs?  If you were need any help with UG, just ask.  If you want a copy of the seed file I use, just ask.  A tip, copy the original and modify what ever is needed, especially the tables like threading and a lot of other things, mainly the ugii_env file.  Get yourself a copy of windiff.  That way you can re find your changes in new releases.  G-Tech will be a very big help to you.  It has more how-to things in it and you have ever seen and you will 99% of the time get an answer from there help desk.  Also, if you ever get a chance to hear John Baker give a demo, go, I don't care what the cost.  That man knows so much about CAD and UG it is increditable to hear you talk and if one are real lucky, have him talk one on one with you.  

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

Our ugii_env file is controlled globally from a network location and thus I can't really change it.

Been using it for a little over a year so I've gotten it down fairly well but it's still not as easy as swx in most things. Especially part families, swx configurations is way more powerful. UG's expressions are way better so I could go back and forth all day.

Gtac is faster then the swx var treatment and you get talk to them directly but there support area message needs a serious overhaul.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

(OP)
Interesting.  We run only the liences and storage from the network, so someone like me can really hop up his workstation.  There is an old saying about UG, the best thing about UG is there is a million different way to do everything, the worst thing about UG is there is a million different way to do everything.  Have a good one.

RE: Dimensioning Diameter of Seat, Vertical Fails

That's true.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2

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