Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
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Hi,
I'm working with Nx8.5. While in Drafting I go to: Preferences/Annotation, I select tolerance and then chose "Upper Right" from the drop-down of "Alignment Position". Now I create a dimension with a +/- tolerance and the tolerance is still defaulting to being directly to the right of the dimension instead of to the upper right of the dimension where I need it to be. I have also tried the same method after creating the dimension, left clicking on the dimension and bringing up the Edit function. Is there something that I am missing that I need to do?
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I'm working with Nx8.5. While in Drafting I go to: Preferences/Annotation, I select tolerance and then chose "Upper Right" from the drop-down of "Alignment Position". Now I create a dimension with a +/- tolerance and the tolerance is still defaulting to being directly to the right of the dimension instead of to the upper right of the dimension where I need it to be. I have also tried the same method after creating the dimension, left clicking on the dimension and bringing up the Edit function. Is there something that I am missing that I need to do?
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.





RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Among them is Superscript <H>, which will place a half-size character above the top line of the text. Use <H> at the start and at the end of the characters to be superscripted.
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
-Dalai Lama XIV
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
I did a quick test in NX4 and can't do the same, so I'm not sure how you did it.
Anthony Galante

Senior Support Engineer
NX3 to NX10 with almost every MR (21versions)
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Only other way I can see it being done in NX4 or NX8.5 is to do it as appended text.
Anthony Galante

Senior Support Engineer
NX3 to NX10 with almost every MR (21versions)
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Best regards,
Michaël.
NX7.5.4.4 (NX8.5.3) + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
<Gr> where r is the spacing factor relative to the current spacing
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
-Dalai Lama XIV
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
-Dalai Lama XIV
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Best regards,
Michaël.
NX7.5.4.4 (NX8.5.3) + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
If you are really stuck on this dimension style and simply must use it now, I suggest creating the tolerance as a separate note and using the 'origin' tool to associate it with the dimension (as the dimension moves, the tolerance note moves with it). It will look like your example, but you may lose out on some functionality (if any downstream functionality queries your drawing dimensions they won't pick up on the 'tolerances' that you have added, but the dimensions themselves will be fully associative to the model).
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
Can we adjust the spacing between a dimension and its' appended text? Also, Cowski, how does one use the origin tool?
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
If you use appended text and MickyV007's suggestion about the <H> tags, you might get what you want.
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RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
I have achieved what I show in my last attachment whilst maintaining live connection between the model and the dimension (thanks everyone
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
I'm not requesting a change in Nx here. I do however find it odd that the only options for placement of a proper tolerance are directly to the right, directly above, and directly below the dimension. As I mentioned before I've seen tolerancing done to the upper right of the dimension quite frequently regardless of what company the prints came from. Can you tell me how to adjust the default distance between a dimension and its' toloerance/appended text?
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
But getting back to the standards issue, unless you can show where this is supported by a standard, there will be no motivation for us to support it. We are committed to support the commonalty used international standards. If you wish to doing something nonstandard, we provide manual ways to do it as well a suite of customization tools that can be used to automate the process.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
RE: Position of tolerance in association with the dimension
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.