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Dr Pevac.. I like that :) hehe! Thanks. When I say virtual center.. I just mean some construction geometry that you put on a hidden layer. For example, construct a diagonal line with a point in the middle of it. This will be the middle of the rectangle and stay associative to it.

Say you need the text to be vertical. You will have to dimension two midpoints on the horizontal lines (up and down) and right click on the line - properties/display and click override standard dimension display and choose the third option (in line with the dimension line). This should work...

This will work. -> 1. Smart dimension between the mid-points of the sides of the rectangle in the drawing (any two sides will do) - make sure center dimension text is turned on. 2. Delete the Dimension Text <DIM> and replace with the text required (Front Panel) 3. Move the dimension to the...

You can use seperate sketches or you can try using blocks.

Yes it does, but it looks like it only happens if you do a forced rebuild (Control + q) and I think they may have fixed it in the new service pack. I will see today and post what I found. I've also sent the files to my VAR and they are sending it to Solidworks so keep an eye here, I'll post...

SW2006 SP4.1 Updating to 5 at the moment. ;) Maybe it fixes it?

I was wondering if other people have noticed that when you offset with 0 (copy) surfaces from one part into another part (via assembly in-context) and automatically break references the surfaces have a tendency to sometimes dissappear? This is making me nervous because I have many parts which...

I had this happen on cropped views a few times. The way around it was to uncrop and then crop again after. Cough, cough, when is that next service pack comming out?

Thanks for the answer! 1. Apparently straight up PC does not repond well to chemicals (besides, the PC/Acrylic and PC/PET blends seem to offer much higher toughness). 2. We will try the candidates. Trying to determine ALL the possible candidates at this stage. 3. As the mode of failure is...

I am on a mission to find a replacement injection moulding polymer to replace the current Cycoloy (PC +ABS) blend. We have parts that are failing due to an impact force and we have changed the geometry as much as it allows to get rid of stress concentrators and to better distribute the forces...

Thanks MechNorth for your post. Very informative, interesting and useful! Keep it up. All the best, Ivan

Just to add my 5 cents worth... I think you can get any graphic design company or individual with a vector based graphic program to modify a font for your use. If you are happy with a single font for everything, it may be easier to modify this font so that 0 (Zero) is diplayed with the line...

Ringman, We are part of an international group, but of very small companies, which makes it somewhat difficult. We all collaborate with our designs, and all of our injection moulded components are manufactured "in-house" which is actually not in the same country (countries) where the design is...

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. I'll stick with the orthodox way, even if I have to make some more sectional views. The trouble is that this particular part is mostly out of surfaces that have no relation to front/side/top views - or each other, so my drawing is getting cluttered with...

Thanks Heckler, but as this all relates to how you define a feature I am still uncertain. My dillema is that I do not have a view which shows my feature (surface) as an edge and all examples that I have come accross have a GD&T frame attached to the edge representing a surface. My...