auto dimension a drawing
Sean Phillips
to do this with the api? has anyone wrote a macro to do this already?
Ken Bolen
> im trying to auto dimension a drawing with wood on it. is there a way
> to do this with the api? has anyone wrote a macro to do this already?
Here's a couple articles I have seen:
#1
Goto http://www.extremedp.com/extreme/programs.htm
and download the demo (fully functional). Worked pretty well (I was
actually surprised at how well), just make sure you follow all the
setup/instruction steps at that web address to get it running in SW.
Purchase price is $100 (I don't know how long the demo runs for).
#2
Another option is something I saw posted in a SolidWorks Forum at:
http://www.eng-tips.com. Basically it just inserts whatever
dimensions you used when defining your sketches, and it is already in
your existing SW. Here's the post:
>>>
After your drawing views are created, use the INSERT\MODEL ITEMS
command.
If nothing in your drawing is selected, all dimensions in all views
are inserted at once. This can get quite confusing. Sometimes it is
more beneficial to highlight a particular view and bring them in one
view at a time, but I often use the feature manager tree to bring in
selected dimensions into to selected views individually.
But sometimes the dimension you are after will not be inserted into
the view you want and then you have to bring them into a different
view and use a crtl-drag to copy them to the view you want. (shift-
drag will move the dimensions from view to view) On a rare occasion
though, this won't work either and your're stuck entering them
manually.
Dimensions which are inserted into the drawing which you don't want
can be hidden also. There is an option under TOOLS - OPTIONS - SYSTEM
OPTIONS - DRAWINGS which will eliminate duplicate dimensions from
being inserted.
Icons are available for the toolbars for both the insert modal items
command and the hide/show annotations command.
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