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• Show button
The Show button allows you to display the various
parameters related with the model in the drawing views.
• Type area
• Erase By area
• Properties tab
This tab contains options to change
the properties of dimensions.
• Value
You can modify the dimension value by selecting a dimension value. When the
dimension value and the arrows turn red, click on the dimension value. Notice that now
only the value is highlighted in red. Hold down the right mouse button to invoke the
shortcut menu. From the shortcut menu choose the Edit Value option. The dimension
value is displayed in the edit box. Modify the value in the edit box and press ENTER.
To view the effect of the modification, you will have to regenerate the model using
Update the display of all views in the active sheet button from the Top Toolchest.
• Text
The parameters that can be modified are the selected text line, the entire text
material, text height, text style, style library for the text, and the current style.
Clean Dimensions
dialog box
• Cosmetic tab
The options under this tab helps to determine a dimension
value’s location with respect to the dimension line.
Clean Dimensions
Figure showing the drawing views with dialog box
dimensions before cleaning
The drawing views with dimensions after cleaning
Adding Reference Datums to the Drawing Views
Reference datums are used as references for geometric tolerance. Datums are to
be set before adding the geometric tolerance. To create a reference datum,
choose Insert > Model Datum > Plane from the menu bar. The Datum dialog box
is displayed.
• Dimensional Tolerances
These are the variation in the standard
dimensional values.
• Move button
The Move button is
chosen to change the
location of the current gtol. The Symbols tab of the Geometric Tolerance
dialog box
The figure shows the drawing view with reference datums and gtol.
b. Open a new drawing file in the Drawing mode and generate the top view and
the front view of the model on the drawing sheet as shown in Figure C.
d. Generate the dimension to the views and clean them, as shown in Figure D,
using the Clean Dimensions dialog box.