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"Larry Caldwell" <
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Oh yeah ... on this subject, what are you guys
referring to when you talk about copy/paste measure dims? I've never been able
to paste a measured dim into a dim edit box ... you?
~Larry
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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To be honest I don't see this 0.000000000004
problem that a lot of others do. I am very careful to fully constraint
my model with 2,3, and 4 place decimals and I rarely find a measurement that
ends up being off by the 12th of 13th decimal place. To me (in many
situations) this is an indication that something is wrong in my model.
If you have very odd shaped parts then you are probably more likely to see
this. Most of my stuff is plates and cylinders, not swoopy
surfaces...
In the few cases that I do have a dim like this
I take the full value. If my model is off by 1 billionth of an inch
then I carry it through as I know my machine shop isn't going to be able to
get this close (although I try to make them <g>)
I would like an expandable dimension edit box
for this reason however. You bring up a good point...
An alternative is to go to the parameters
dialogue (where you have a bit more room to edit) but it has problems of
it's own... 😞
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the
Inventor FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
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How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure flyout??
For example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click on the measure
flyout, measure two points in my assy, I get something like
39.000000000000004"..I usally will highlight this and then type in just
plain 39. I know that the system just adds in the trailing
.00000000000004, however, it makes it a real pain when I go back to edit a
part. All I can see in the text window is the .00000000000004... I have to
cursor over just to find the 39. Does this make any sense? How can I force
it to display just the rounded number? With a string of numbers and
operators like you mentioned, I could see it being a real mess!
Thanks
Denis
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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Larry I'm not talking about copy & paste I am
talking about accessing the measure command from within the dim dialogue
box...
However if you want to copy & paste, issue
the measure command, measure something, select the text in the measure box
then RMB and select copy (or Ctrl-C).
In the dim dialogue select the text and then
issue Ctrl-V. There is not paste on the RMB menu....
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"Larry Caldwell" <
href="mailto:lc@houston.rr.com">lc@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
href="news:3828391E7AD290BD538F6B7BF8908E91@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:3828391E7AD290BD538F6B7BF......
Oh yeah ... on this subject, what are you
guys referring to when you talk about copy/paste measure dims? I've never
been able to paste a measured dim into a dim edit box ...
you?
~Larry
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
href="news:C3576B189BBE5A8DB1EBCC247F888017@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:C3576B189BBE5A8DB1EBCC2......
To be honest I don't see this 0.000000000004
problem that a lot of others do. I am very careful to fully
constraint my model with 2,3, and 4 place decimals and I rarely find a
measurement that ends up being off by the 12th of 13th decimal
place. To me (in many situations) this is an indication that
something is wrong in my model. If you have very odd shaped parts
then you are probably more likely to see this. Most of my stuff is
plates and cylinders, not swoopy surfaces...
In the few cases that I do have a dim like
this I take the full value. If my model is off by 1 billionth of an
inch then I carry it through as I know my machine shop isn't going to be
able to get this close (although I try to make them
<g>)
I would like an expandable dimension edit box
for this reason however. You bring up a good point...
An alternative is to go to the parameters
dialogue (where you have a bit more room to edit) but it has problems of
it's own... 😞
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the
Inventor FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
href="mailto:ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com">ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com>
wrote in message
href="news:f12abe3.12@WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:f12abe3.12@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure
flyout?? For example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click on
the measure flyout, measure two points in my assy, I get something like
39.000000000000004"..I usally will highlight this and then type in just
plain 39. I know that the system just adds in the trailing
.00000000000004, however, it makes it a real pain when I go back to edit
a part. All I can see in the text window is the .00000000000004... I
have to cursor over just to find the 39. Does this make any sense? How
can I force it to display just the rounded number? With a string of
numbers and operators like you mentioned, I could see it being a real
mess!
Thanks
Denis
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"Larry Caldwell" <
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Ah ... Ctrl V ... so that's it ... bet that
makes you command-line guys smile <G>.
~Larry
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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Larry I'm not talking about copy & paste I
am talking about accessing the measure command from within the dim dialogue
box...
However if you want to copy & paste, issue
the measure command, measure something, select the text in the measure box
then RMB and select copy (or Ctrl-C).
In the dim dialogue select the text and then
issue Ctrl-V. There is not paste on the RMB menu....
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the
Inventor FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"Larry Caldwell" <
href="mailto:lc@houston.rr.com">lc@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
href="news:3828391E7AD290BD538F6B7BF8908E91@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:3828391E7AD290BD538F6B7......
Oh yeah ... on this subject, what are you
guys referring to when you talk about copy/paste measure dims? I've never
been able to paste a measured dim into a dim edit box ...
you?
~Larry
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
href="news:C3576B189BBE5A8DB1EBCC247F888017@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:C3576B189BBE5A8DB1EBC......
To be honest I don't see this
0.000000000004 problem that a lot of others do. I am very careful
to fully constraint my model with 2,3, and 4 place decimals and I rarely
find a measurement that ends up being off by the 12th of 13th decimal
place. To me (in many situations) this is an indication that
something is wrong in my model. If you have very odd shaped parts
then you are probably more likely to see this. Most of my stuff is
plates and cylinders, not swoopy surfaces...
In the few cases that I do have a dim like
this I take the full value. If my model is off by 1 billionth of
an inch then I carry it through as I know my machine shop isn't going to
be able to get this close (although I try to make them
<g>)
I would like an expandable dimension edit
box for this reason however. You bring up a good
point...
An alternative is to go to the parameters
dialogue (where you have a bit more room to edit) but it has problems of
it's own... 😞
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the
Inventor FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
href="mailto:ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com">ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com>
wrote in message
href="news:f12abe3.12@WebX.maYIadrTaRb">news:f12abe3.12@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure
flyout?? For example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click
on the measure flyout, measure two points in my assy, I get something
like 39.000000000000004"..I usally will highlight this and then type
in just plain 39. I know that the system just adds in the trailing
.00000000000004, however, it makes it a real pain when I go back to
edit a part. All I can see in the text window is the
.00000000000004... I have to cursor over just to find the 39. Does
this make any sense? How can I force it to display just the rounded
number? With a string of numbers and operators like you mentioned, I
could see it being a real mess!
Thanks
Denis
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