×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

(OP)
Hopefully this is a simple one, but is there a congig option (or drawing.dtl) that would allow dimensions that are Show/Erase in origin to be a different colour from manually added dims in drawing mode?

Cheers

Kevin Hammond

Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
 

RE: Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

no

-Hora

RE: Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

(OP)
Simple

Kevin Hammond

Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
 

RE: Dimensions (Show/Erase v's Manually Added)

I usually create two layers one for model dims and one for drafting dims so that I know which ones I can change to modify the model. You can then hide one layer and select all the other dimensions and change the Text Style color in the Properties dialog box.

I also usually create a layer called dims_current for the dimensions that I want to keep on the drawing which is a mix of model and drawing dims which helps if you accidentally show a bunch of dimensions and undo doesn't work. It's also usefull when you show dimensions using the model tree which won't give you a preview before throwing all dimensions on to your drawing.

DIMS_MODEL Layer Rule Name = d*
DIMS_DRW   Layer Rule Name ~= d*

Michael

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources