Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings

Dimensioning Key-ins

These key-ins are used for specialized dimensioning tasks.

To

Key in

Break up the dimension elements contained in a fence into lines, line strings, ellipses, arcs, and text.

FENCE DROP DIMENSION (see Drop Dimension Element)

Turn an individual extension line(s) off or on.

CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION (see Turning off and on individual extension lines)

Change the view that determines the orientation of text in a dimension element.

CHANGE DIMENSION VIEW (see Changing the view that dimension text is oriented with)

Turning off and on individual extension lines

You can turn a single extension line off or on, turn all of a dimension's extension lines off or on, or toggle all of a dimension element's extension lines.

To turn off a dimension's extension line
  1. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION OFF.

  2. Identify the extension line.

  3. Accept the change.

To turn off all of a dimension's extension lines
  1. Select all of the dimension element's extension lines by dragging around them with the selection tool.

  2. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION OFF.

  3. Accept the change.

To turn on a dimension's extension line
  1. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION ON.

  2. Identify the extension line.
    An extension line that is off is not displayed, of course. To identify it, snap a tentative point between the end of the dimension line and the point on the element that it dimensions. If you have difficulty locating the extension line, toggle all the dimension's extension lines, and turn off the one that you want on, and toggle all the extension lines again. See     To toggle all of a dimension's extension lines.
    When the extension line is identified, it is highlighted.

  3. Accept the change.

To turn on all of a dimension's extension lines
  1. Select all the dimension element's extension lines by dragging around them with the selection tool.

  2. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION ON.

  3. Accept the change.

To toggle all of a dimension's extension lines
  1. Select all the dimension element's extension lines by dragging around them with the selection tool.

  2. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION EXTENSION.
    All extension lines that were on are turned off, and all extension lines that were off are turned on.

  3. Accept the change.

Changing the view with which dimension text is oriented

By default, the orientation of text in a dimension element is controlled by the view in which the first data point was entered when the element was placed.

To change the view that determines the orientation of dimension text
  1. Select the dimension element(s).

  2. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION VIEW <view_number>.
    View_number specifies the view with which the text in the selected dimension(s) is to be oriented.

Alternative Method — To change the view that determines the orientation of dimension text
  1. Key in CHANGE DIMENSION VIEW <view_number>.

  2. Identify the dimension element.

  3. Accept the change.