If your trying to dimension to the center of a slot, the true center of the
slot that is, what I usually do is place a workpoint then sketch around that
workpoint and extrude the slot as a whole.
Then when you create views the parametric dimensions will appear.
Otherwise I use just regular Autocad linear dimensions and annotate them.
Good luck!
"Joe Dupre"
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> "Kent Keller" wrote in message
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> > Actually I forgot, you can use mid snaps on amautodims now. run
> amautodim, choose
> > ordinate (I think that is what you mean?) and choose all the features
> except the 0.0
> > location. then use mid snap to place the 0.0
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> Can you expand on this? I don't see quite how to do this (what objects to
> pick and why). There isn't much documentation on AMAUTODIM that I could
> find.
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> I don't know what this will look like once transmitted, but I have
attempted
> to create some ASCII art to show what I am attempting. Below shows a
corner
> of a panel, with an obround hole near the edge. How can I create a
> horizontal ordinal dimension with the upper right corner being reference
> (0.00), and dimensioning to the midpoint of the top of the obround? (Or
> ideally the point that is midway between the two arcs, shown by the + in
the
> drawing.)
>
> - Joe
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