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Decimal Places in DWG

Decimal Places in DWG

Decimal Places in DWG

(OP)
Hello,
I am having a problem that when I dimension a feature that is like 10.0 or 110.0 the drawing does not put the .0 after the number.  All I see is 10 or 110.  This is a problem when I have to go back to each dimension that is shown like this and add the .0 then the tolerance.  Would anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

RE: Decimal Places in DWG

Hi,
If you are using version 2001......
In your config.pro file, you can control the number of decimal places using: default_dec_places.

In drawing mode, you can set the decimal display using:
Format/Decimal Places - from the drop down menu on the top of the screen. If you set the value to (2) for example, it will remain at that value until you go back and change it.

We bring all of our dimensions in at 3 decimal places, evaluate them for tolerances and then assign the correct number of places using mapkeys which are assigned to:0,1,2,or 3 on the keyboard.
Makes for quick work.........

Hope this helps

JW

RE: Decimal Places in DWG

The other thing is that if your files are set for metric dimensioning, then there are no trailing zeros on metric dimensions.

This is in our .dtl file
lead_trail_zeros STD_METRIC

No matter how many decimal places you specify on the drawing, as long as the model dimension is an integer value, that is all you will see.

An easy check is to change your model size from 10 to 10.375.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: Decimal Places in DWG

(OP)
Thank you for your replies.  My dimensioning is in metric.

I went back in and changed my drawing setup option lead_trail_zeros to "both" and that worked great.  Now all I have to do is go back and take all the zeros out that I added manually :(

Still learning, I just love this forum

Thanks so much
John

RE: Decimal Places in DWG

If you have a note on your drawing that says it conforms to ASME Y14.5M then trailing zero's are not allowed.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

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