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ORDINAL DIMENSION

ORDINAL DIMENSION

ORDINAL DIMENSION

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I want a TIP to make a table with the values of the ordinal dimensions.

When I make a draw whit a lot of dimensions, the draw became unreadable. Thas why a put the values in a excel table, but i do that manually.

If anyone can't help me to do the same in better way, I'll appreciate.

Thanks!
 

RE: ORDINAL DIMENSION

This is an interesting problem.  I once had a job designing multi-spindle drill heads that had arrays of gears in AutoCAD, like a car transmission.  Typical heads had 15-45 gears.  We used a bore chart for (X,Y) dimensions of bearing bore and dowel pin locations, with a LISP program to insert the bore locations into a chart as the centers were picked.  However, the dimensions were not associative and needed to be updated by hand.

I am trying to visualise a way to accomplish this in SW. Perhaps using a note instead of an Excel file, and linking note parameters to the ordinate dimensions?

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RE: ORDINAL DIMENSION

Are all of the dimensions needed? Meaning, can some of the dimension that are not needed be hidden in the drawing.  I dont know if the operation of hidding or unhidding the dims in the drawing can be automated with parameters using api or a macro, havent run across this situation before.

Just a thought.


Jay

RE: ORDINAL DIMENSION

I hope you're not trying to place all dimensions in a single drawing view?

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