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CENTERLINE

CENTERLINE

CENTERLINE

(OP)
Is the centerline symbol located in SE somewhere? I can seem to find it.

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

RE: CENTERLINE

I assume you are talking Draft.

You can place center lines (or centre lines) using the button on the drawing view tool bar.  It may be a fly out (or is it a flydown) under something like center mark.

You actually have two options these days, automatic center lines or good old manual.

RE: CENTERLINE

(OP)
your correct, i'm looking in draft. BUT its the CL symbol i'm looking for (CL - touching & staggered)

I can see in my question how you may think I was looking for the centerline icon, oops. :)

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

RE: CENTERLINE

I thought this was no longer used.  I only recall seeing it on very old drawings.  

I asked my checker and we aren't aware of a spec that says not to use it though.  

Y14.38 just says centerline = CL

You could superimpose 2 callouts or 2 text boxes one for each letter, this is how I think I did it the one time I had to on SE.

RE: CENTERLINE

(OP)
thanks for the reference. I'll use the standard then.

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

RE: CENTERLINE

ParaCAD, just to emphasize, I’m not aware of a standard that explicitly says not to use it, I just recall being told not to and have mainly seen it on old drawings.  If you post this over on GD&T someone may know though.

14.38 is a list of standard abbreviations, not symbols.

Sorry I can’t give a more definitive answer.

RE: CENTERLINE

We still use the CL mark in my work.  I took the letter C and the letter L and set them how they should look and grouped them.   

RE: CENTERLINE

Once I was able to use the letter "q" with the style GDT in older version of solid edge but now I can't seem to find it, except that I fell onto the style IGES 1001 and still with the letter "q" it chose a nice center line symbol.

Patrick
SE V18

RE: CENTERLINE

Sorry I made an error it's supposed to be "shows" instead.

my bad

RE: CENTERLINE

You could always save the characters as a symbol and store it with other standard notes etc, then drag that onto your drawing sheet.

bc

RE: CENTERLINE

(OP)
Thanks for all the ideas guys. I ended up just using CL. That’s easy enough. And apparently there is no company standard available. So I can do what I like.

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

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