Second noob question of the day. [Aligning Dimensions]

[DKahmer]

Thanks for the help earlier guys.

I'm trying to align two dimensions. They are both horizontal hole spacing dimensions. I assumed that when you put two dimensions together they would snap so that the arrow from one, is directly next to the arrow from the next.

|<- 32 ->|
|_______||<- 32 ->|

Should look like:

|<- 32 ->|<- 32 ->|
|_______|_______|

Is there a way I can select a group of dimensions and align them?

Thanks guys.

 

[jerry1423]

What versionof NX are you on ?

 

[JohnRBaker]

What version of NX are you running?

Note that there are several ways to line up dimensions. Below are series of vidoes which will show three different approaches.

Video #1, Align by snapping to a grid point:

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt169/jbakersr/Dim_Align_by_Grid_zps4aca273f.mp4

This is the fastest way to do it but as you can see once the dimensions are created there is no way to keep them aligned if you move one of them, but it's not that hard to get them back in alignment.

Video #2, Align using the dimension alignment feature:

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt169/jbakersr/Dim_Align_by_Dim_zps164d85b4.mp4

Now this also fairly easy to do you just have highlight the dimension that you wish to align the new dimension before you place it. The advantage of doing it this way is that the dimensions remain aligned even if you move the first dimension, the others snap into place.

Video #3, Use Chain Dimension instead:

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt169/jbakersr/Dim_Align_using_Chain-Dim_zpsf399dd03.mp4

Since I assume that you're creating a string of horizontal dimensions, you can use the 'Chain Dimension' function to simply create them all at once with the least amount of picks and you still get the associative alignment.

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