Comments on: Standards Wednesday – Location of Features http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/ SolidWorks Design and Drafting Tips and Tricks Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:51:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joseph http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4054 Joseph Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:59:44 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4054 Is there anyway to control how SolidWorks produces the number of instances format. For Example: I have four counterbores. SolidWorks will Show the 4X in front of the dimension. Is there anyway to get it to go to the end and also have it say (4) PLACES rather than the 4X.<br><br>Thanks in advance for any help! Is there anyway to control how SolidWorks produces the number of instances format. For Example: I have four counterbores. SolidWorks will Show the 4X in front of the dimension. Is there anyway to get it to go to the end and also have it say (4) PLACES rather than the 4X.

Thanks in advance for any help!

]]> By: Joseph http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4468 Joseph Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:59:44 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4468 Is there anyway to control how SolidWorks produces the number of instances format. For Example: I have four counterbores. SolidWorks will Show the 4X in front of the dimension. Is there anyway to get it to go to the end and also have it say (4) PLACES rather than the 4X.<br><br>Thanks in advance for any help! Is there anyway to control how SolidWorks produces the number of instances format. For Example: I have four counterbores. SolidWorks will Show the 4X in front of the dimension. Is there anyway to get it to go to the end and also have it say (4) PLACES rather than the 4X.

Thanks in advance for any help!

]]> By: TheSWGeek http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4053 TheSWGeek Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:32:01 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4053 It all depends on the tools you use and how the features were created. If you used the hole wizard to create holes and use the Hole Callout tool to dimension them, in most case SW will add the number of instances using the tag <NUM_INST>X<br><br>In other situation you can use the DimXpert tab in the Smart Dimension PropertyManager, and autodimension the part, the <NUM_INST> will automatically be used as well. However, I did notice that multiple instances placed by the DimXpert uses a lower case ‘x’ preceded with a space. I am looking into this, you might have to modify the calloutformat.txt but I am not sure at this point. It all depends on the tools you use and how the features were created. If you used the hole wizard to create holes and use the Hole Callout tool to dimension them, in most case SW will add the number of instances using the tag <NUM_INST>X

In other situation you can use the DimXpert tab in the Smart Dimension PropertyManager, and autodimension the part, the <NUM_INST> will automatically be used as well. However, I did notice that multiple instances placed by the DimXpert uses a lower case ‘x’ preceded with a space. I am looking into this, you might have to modify the calloutformat.txt but I am not sure at this point.

]]> By: TheSWGeek http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4467 TheSWGeek Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:32:01 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4467 It all depends on the tools you use and how the features were created. If you used the hole wizard to create holes and use the Hole Callout tool to dimension them, in most case SW will add the number of instances using the tag <NUM_INST>X<br><br>In other situation you can use the DimXpert tab in the Smart Dimension PropertyManager, and autodimension the part, the <NUM_INST> will automatically be used as well. However, I did notice that multiple instances placed by the DimXpert uses a lower case ‘x’ preceded with a space. I am looking into this, you might have to modify the calloutformat.txt but I am not sure at this point. It all depends on the tools you use and how the features were created. If you used the hole wizard to create holes and use the Hole Callout tool to dimension them, in most case SW will add the number of instances using the tag <NUM_INST>X

In other situation you can use the DimXpert tab in the Smart Dimension PropertyManager, and autodimension the part, the <NUM_INST> will automatically be used as well. However, I did notice that multiple instances placed by the DimXpert uses a lower case ‘x’ preceded with a space. I am looking into this, you might have to modify the calloutformat.txt but I am not sure at this point.

]]> By: rdo http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4052 rdo Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:58 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4052 Great post (been keeping up with the previous posts in this series as well). One question... when you say "In SolidWorks the ‘X’ will be placed outside of the box when you specify a repetitive dimension as basic", are you saying that SWx has some built-in mechanism for identifying and handling repetitive dimensions? I've always just manually typed in the 4X or whatever preceding the dimension under Dimension Text in the properties. Is there a better way? Thanks Great post (been keeping up with the previous posts in this series as well). One question… when you say “In SolidWorks the ‘X’ will be placed outside of the box when you specify a repetitive dimension as basic”, are you saying that SWx has some built-in mechanism for identifying and handling repetitive dimensions? I've always just manually typed in the 4X or whatever preceding the dimension under Dimension Text in the properties. Is there a better way? Thanks

]]> By: rdo http://www.theswgeek.com/2008/08/06/standards-wednesday-location-of-features/comment-page-1/#comment-4466 rdo Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:58 +0000 http://www.theswgeek.com/?p=696#comment-4466 Great post (been keeping up with the previous posts in this series as well). One question... when you say "In SolidWorks the ‘X’ will be placed outside of the box when you specify a repetitive dimension as basic", are you saying that SWx has some built-in mechanism for identifying and handling repetitive dimensions? I've always just manually typed in the 4X or whatever preceding the dimension under Dimension Text in the properties. Is there a better way? Thanks Great post (been keeping up with the previous posts in this series as well). One question… when you say “In SolidWorks the ‘X’ will be placed outside of the box when you specify a repetitive dimension as basic”, are you saying that SWx has some built-in mechanism for identifying and handling repetitive dimensions? I've always just manually typed in the 4X or whatever preceding the dimension under Dimension Text in the properties. Is there a better way? Thanks

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