The ordinate command is giving me grief
The ordinate command is giving me grief
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Does anyone use ordinate dimensioning? It seems very clumsy and difficult to make it do what I want. I have a part that from the top view has radiuses on all 4 corners. I would like to make the intersection of the X and Y sides my ordinate basepoint. I can figure out no way to make it so. Even once I get this it is very cumbersome to pick anything but a hole. For instance the edge of a pocket or the outer edge of the part. It gives me two dimensions for everything I pick, where sometime only one is required. Do I just have to go back and delete the unwanted dimensions? Let me know if you have found a good way to make this function work for you. I am on NX4,
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RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
As for creating only dimensions along one baseline and not the other, what you do after you've created your first dimension to define your auto-margins (or created explict margins), place your cursor over the 'baseline' axis that you wish to be ignored and press MB3 (right mouse-button) and select the 'Set Baseline Inactive' option. Now when creating dimensions the only ones created will be with respect to the OTHER baseline. To activate the baseline again or to switch which baseline is to be inactive, just repeat the above baseline selection procedure, picking the appropriate options.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
This is an option in NX5. I have long struggled with that same scenario. In NX5 you can set the ordinate to be "ALIGNED" while conventional dimensions can be "horizontal".
RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
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RE: The ordinate command is giving me grief
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/