hogfan1978 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Hi folks, I'm designing a poultry composter building and I'm drawing it using solids. When dimensioning the structure, I can't shoot dimensions in the z-axis, just in the x and y direction. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Thanks, Ryan Quote
CADguy209 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Dimensions, like circles, are parallel to the xy plane. Your gonna have to rotate your ucs so that the xy plane is allinged with the features of your solid that you want to dimension. Also you will have to place the origin on the face of the model that you want to dimension. Quote
hogfan1978 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 More ?s: How do I move the ucs? And once I move it back to it's original position, how do I ensure that it is in the exact same position as before? Thanks. Quote
CADguy209 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 More ?s: How do I move the ucs? And once I move it back to it's original position, how do I ensure that it is in the exact same position as before? Thanks. At the command line type ucs, then you can type X or Y or Z depending on which axis you want to rotate around. You will then be asked for rotation angle (default is 90). What I like to do is rotate the around the x and y axis in 90 degrees. After each rotation I save that ucs. If you go back to the UCS command you will notice that two of the options are Save and Restore. So if you save the different ucs positions you can restore them when ever you want. Usually I just save them a 1,2,3..etc...less typing that way. Another advantage of doing this is you can resotre your saved UCS's for when you want to draw a feature relative to a certain face/side on your model. So after you set up all that its just a matter of setting up your ucs to align with the face/side of your model that you want to dimension and setting the origin somewhere on said face/side then adding your dims. I have to say though that dimensioning this way things can get clutterd pretty quick. I only ever dimension on the model to just give some basic overall dims. Also I forgot to mention this method is for dimensioning in model space. Quote
hogfan1978 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 Got it. Thanks a lot. You have helped me tremendously! Quote
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