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Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

(OP)
Hi, everyone. I've been lurking around, so this is my first post (IIRC).

I am working on a SolidWorks drawing, and all my other ones came out just fine. However, on this one, inexplicably, my dimensions are this dirty yellow color. Not all of them, just most of them. The yellow ones are my ordinate dimensions.

I checked the layer colors, and they are all black, so I do not know what could be contributing to these ordinate dimensions being yellow. Does anyone have any idea?

RE: Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

Sounds like Dangling Dimensions(broken dimension), or if using SW2012 could mean that your dimension values have changed.

Check your SW Tools Options -> Colors -> Color Scheme Settings to verify.

RE: Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

(OP)
Yep, you're right. I checked and it seems that the dimensions became dangling. Egads! I have no idea how that happened. I just deleted the dimensions and reapplied. I'm sure there's some way to automatically reattach dangling dimensions, but I am just learning the program.

RE: Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

Deleting & re-applying the dangling dimensions is usually the simplest & quickest method.

Dangling dimensions can (usually) be re-attached by dragging the end of a leader line, onto geometry in the view.

RE: Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

TheFerruccio,

If you are new to SWX please do yourself a favor and invest a small amount of time to go through ALL the SWX tutorials. They are terrific! In particular, pay attention to fully defining your sketches in the part files and then dumping those dimensions into the drawing. You will find that for the most part all you have to do is drag dimensions around to make a clear drawing, rather than spend a lot of time adding dimensions.

- - -Updraft

RE: Why are the dimensions in my drawings colored yellow?

(OP)
Hi Updraft,

I did all the associated tutorials, though I am wondering whether the sketches would directly translate to what the machinist wants. These are actually imported files, and I wanted to dimension everything so the tolerance stackup wouldn't get too high.

By the way, if you have a resource for even more tutorials, much like the Solidworks World conference proceedings (which do not go through step by step at all, but simply have the completed parts), that would be great. I am trying to follow dimensioning and drawing requirements as specified in ASME 14.5 2009 and 14.100.

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