Hello,
I've to recreate a load of tracings in IV, the drawings were created using Imperial measurements, however I'm to recreate them using a combination of both Metric and Imperial. I'm being lazy, cunning, whatever and modelling the part in Imperial and then my idw template is set to use Metric primarily with Imperial being the alternate units. I don't have much experience of using tolerances and there's alot of them.
When modelling the part, I've set the model tolerance to 4 decimal places. Now my current dimension style in my style sheet(I got there 🙂 )template is 3 decimal places for both measurement units, when I click on retrieve dimensions I end up with 4 decimal places on for my Metric dimensions and only three for the Imperial alternate units.
Why is the model overriding my dimensions style for the primary units and not the alternate units?
If the model is to override my dimension style then I'd at least like for the alternate dimensions to be overridden, i.e. my Imperially set part document to override the Imperial(alternate) dimensions within the drawing. Experience from an Inventor world cup defined that there were dimensional inaccuracies if using the wrong unit type, the part was modelled using Imperial, a measurement of 1" I put in as 25.4mm and produced the wrong volume by a really little amount. After changing the unit type to Imperial, I cannot remember if I changed the document units or changed the units of the measurement, however I achieved the correct volume.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Scott