AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Rotate Text On Retrieved Dimensions In Drawings
Jan 30, 2012
I frequently use tolerance and fits when modelling and retreive them to use them in drawings. The text on these dimensions is always horizontal . Any time I have vertical dimension on drawings (e.g. several diameters in a stepped bore) the horizontal text takes up way too much real estate. e.g. 18.0000 g6 (17.999 17.998)
I would like to align the text to the dimension lines (i.e. text vertical in this case) In Properties Rotate is greyed out. Is there a way to keep my retrieved dims and have them aligned with the dim lines in the drawing?
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Mar 12, 2012
I need to find out the view a retrieved dimension belongs to - is there a API call available?
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Sep 21, 2011
I have had a problem with retrieved dimensions decimal precision. I set the precision to 1 decimal place in the ipt but when I retrive the dimension it set the precision to 3 decimal places. I then go to the precision control in the drawing and change it to 1 decimal place.
If I then go back to the ipt and edit the dim, the drawing precision then jumps back to 3 decimal places. (This is particular to the decimal precision for the tolerance of a dimension). How to sort this out?
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Nov 3, 2011
My boss wants me to look into using annotative text and dimensions for all our drawings. Currently, we have 15 different text and dimension styles depending on what scale we're using.
However, despite my extensive knowledge in most areas of AutoCAD, I have absolutely NO knowledge of how to use it.
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Apr 29, 2012
How do I show dual dimension in Inventor drawing?
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May 19, 2013
I am new to inventor and from a Solidworks background so parts are similar to me.
I am also new to my workplace and part of my job is to clean up and produce some of our CAD files. We are missing drawings from design documentation and I have decided to start there.
How do am I able to add Dimensions into .idw files other than the Retrieve dimensions function?
In other words how can I add dimensions at will?
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Aug 12, 2013
I am having trouble when editing dimensions in idw drawings.An example being that i wish to change the dimension text
40 to read "40x45 CHAM." When i right click the dimension and go into text the format text box opens but when try to change what it is inside the chevrons and replace it with my new text then this does not seem to work.
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Jun 8, 2012
DRAWINGS: I need to prepare a plan view of a complex part, which incorporates many different (parallel) heights. In the drawing, all of these faces are parallel to the plane of the drawing itself. There are far to many of them to show their heights using section views. The usual drawing convention in this case is to simply indicate each face on the drawing, and then express its height relative to a reference plane.
Until now, I have been doing this simply by measuring a height from the part, and then indicating it on the drawing by adding leaders and text, which:
1. Is extremely laborious
2. Obviously has no intelligent link to the actual part/drawing
My breadth of knowledge in CAD is not huge, but I know that in Gibbscam, for example, after setting the position of the origin in 3 planes, if I then pass the cursor over any parallel plane in the z direction while pressing alt, I will get the distance of that plane from z=0.
What I want is the possibility in Inventor to select a face in a drawing, which is in the same plane as the drawing, and straight away be given it's height relative to a parallel reference plane. Such a value should then update intelligently on the drawing if I modify that same height on the part.
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Apr 2, 2013
I already have a code below that will read a bunch of drawing filenames that will go into each drawing, save the drawing, (print the drawing but I have this disabled for now,) close it, then move onto the next one.
What I want to do is add reference brackets around every dimension on each drawing. I have managed to update part list styles before using ilogic but I am not sure if it is possible with dimensions.
question = MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to update multiple drawings? If so, make sure all drawings are checked out.", "Batch Drawing Update",MessageBoxButtons.YesNo,MessageBoxIcon.Question)
'set condition based on answer
If question = vbNo
Exit Sub
End If
[Code] ......
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Apr 3, 2012
So I have set up a new style for rotate balloon text in Inventor 2011. But I am running into a problem when I pull the balloon away from the view to have a leader it does not stay rotated.
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Jul 9, 2013
How to rotate ordinate dimension text in Inventor 2014? Currently the dimensions are horizontal but I would like them to line up with the dimension lines (top and bottom dimensions are vertical)
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Feb 20, 2012
Is there a way to frame a hex or a circle around leader text that can be connected to the to the leader much like a balloon.
I am looking for a way other then sketching a non-connected circle or hex around my leader text.
Solidworks had some thing that allowed you to create your leaded text and then select an option border shape around it.
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Oct 3, 2012
Is it possible to have text below the angular dimension line like you can with most other dimensions. The attached pic shows my 10 dimension with the type. Under the line and my 30 dimension with type. Under the line but the type. Under the 30 is just a text box I eye-balled in to place it is not attached to the dimension. I looked in the styles editor but could not find the setup option I need.
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Sep 23, 2013
I want to rotate multiple drawings to a custom rotation. I have figured out how to save my custom rotation so that I can get back to it in the same drawing file, but is there a way to carry that custom rotation over to other drawing files?
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Jun 12, 2011
I am using it for producing 2D drawings for some simple prototyping.
I am having trouble with two things - Adding dimensions for when I print the image. At the moment I can add dimensions using the constraint tool but I cant seem to find a way to add concise dimensions specifically for printing.
Also is there a feature or a format that I can make 2d images specifically for printing? Perhaps there is a file format?
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Mar 27, 2011
I am having a problem when adding dimensions to my drawings.
The problem is when adding either radius dimension or diameter dimension. When adding dimensions to circles the dimension line goes right through the middle of the circle rather than just touching the edge.
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Nov 28, 2011
Can we have a better way to create “text” in the Inventor part drawings?
I almost create “text” in every part drawing in different view. I have to create a sketch first, than create a text and dimension the text so I can lock the text in position, otherwise when you move the view and the text will stay in different location.
I had been used “Solid works” for long times. When I need to create a text, just click that view and create a text and the text will stay with that view, whatever you move that view and the text move together.
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Aug 9, 2012
Is there a way to Search and replace text in drawings?
Some text is in leaders, others in dimensions...
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Jul 19, 2012
I am currently updating company drawings from one template to another. I am using the copy and paste method. What I am noticing is that when I copy the part and the dimension from the original drawing ( all in 3 place dimensioning) to the new template Autocad is changing the dimensions to 4 place dimensions. First question is why is this happening and second question is can it be stopped?
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Oct 11, 2012
How can i hide the dimensions on the drawing in autocad 2013....screen is cluttered so hiding the dimensions will keep the screen cleaner.
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May 28, 2008
For some reason my dimensions are exploded automatically in some of my drawings. (The arrows and lines are not connected) Only certain drawings though-other drawings are perfectly fine. I've tried pasting dimensions into the drawings and that doesn't work!!
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Jun 6, 2012
How to turn on/off text on the drawing? I`m working on the drawing template and would like to have a form that will allow engineer by checking check boxes to turn on/off certain text on the drawing.
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Jan 18, 2013
Is there a reference of the markup that is used with formatted text on drawings?
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Jul 12, 2013
I mean the dimensions in sketches in a model part, not the drawing dimensions which are controlled by styles .
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Feb 2, 2012
Basically we have a number of different procedures that need to be written in each drawing. Each drawing uses one of 5 or so procedures. Usually we type it out every time which is a pain or copy paste. We also tried making word documents and inserting them that way but it got a little buggy. Is there any way to have 5 or so pre made text blocks to pick which to insert onto different types of drawings but that can be global used across a few systems?
We have a small group of workers all on the vault server. Basically I just want to be able to have a finished drawing. Click something that will open a list of my pre made text blocks, and insert one into the drawing that I can scale etc. We use Inventor 2011.
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Jan 9, 2012
I used the options dialog to make new dimensions associative. However, when I open some older drawings the checkbox is empty. Is this option stored with each drawing? If so, is there a way to change this setting for multiple drawings at once?
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Sep 21, 2011
See video. What can I do about that?
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Mar 16, 2012
I typically as much as possible like to insert my dimensions into my drawing from my model.
I created holes in the model as a 1/4" tapped hole
Yet when I show the dimensions in the drawing they show the minor dimension.
How do I get the 1/4" to show? I have selected the feature and still get these results.
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Aug 22, 2012
is there a way to lock the dimensions to aligned dimensions...or a key i could hold while dimensioning that would do that..
i have to dimensions a drawing where theres a lot of aligned dimensions to put and to do it manualy each time takes forever...
Product Design Suite 2013
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Dec 14, 2010
How do I put dimensions onto working drawings, making them ready for printing?
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Dec 19, 2013
I have used annotative text and selected yes for match orientation to layout for the text. In the viewport it is rotating automatically with the view, however the boxes around the text do not rotate as well. Is there anyway to automate this?
The Client requires a key plan which has all the pipe data on it. The key plan is oriented in one direction. Then for the plan & profile drawings, the plan is oriented in another direction. I don't want to have two create two sets of text (one for the key plan and one for the plan/profile drawing). How can I use one set of text and make it work in the key plan and for all the plan/profile drawings? Image is attached.
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