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Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

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thread561-254126: Dumb Question - What method determines what angels I am measuring?
Does anyone remember this thread? All I want to do is create a 10º angle. Yet I get 170º or 350º or something.

Good news though! This feature carried over to NX9 and it seems worse!

But the truly awesome thing is I figured out its only because I didn't know how to use NX right. It's not how you select it, draw it, vectors, etc... I just wasn't aware that the official way to get the 10º angle is to select the objects and then zoom out until you cannot see the drawing anymore. Then drag your dimension as far up as possible and like magic its at 10º!

All this time I was complaining and even dawgging NX in my head (although NX is by far my favorite package) thinking it was the program's fault... who knew I just needed more training!?

Anyone else still seeing this?

But seriously, is this a text size bug? Or wouldn't modifying the alternative angle button and having it select all the different possible solutions be an "easy fix"?

Thanks,

RE: Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

Is it possible you are picking key points (end points, mid points) of the lines, rather than the lines themselves? That tends to show an angular dimension that doesn't correspond with the lines.

Chris Abbott
TEAM Engineering
www.team-eng.com

RE: Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

Can you provide us with an example - part ?

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Creating Angle Dimensions in Drafting (getting the wrong one 99% of the time)

It's not so much a matter of how you select the lines being dimensioned as it is where you place the dimension. As shown in the attched video, even if you can't get the exact placement desired for the dimension as you're creating it, go ahead and accept anything that gives you the numerical result that you're looking for and then go back and drag it to the proper origin as a secondary operation.

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