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Dimensioning Ellipses

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Anonymous
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‎01-22-2003 04:55 AM
‎01-22-2003 04:55 AM

Dimensioning Ellipses

Has anyone else been unable to dimension ellipses in INV 6 idw's? I'm sure I remember doing it in INV 5.3.

Mike
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Anonymous
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‎01-22-2003 01:21 PM
‎01-22-2003 01:21 PM

I don't see this in R6SP1. Let me
guess.

 

Guess 1: could this be an offset
ellipse?

There are two sorts of offset ellipses, one that
remains a true ellipse and one that is a spline (depending on the position
of the initial pick point during offset creation)

 

Guess 2:could it be
that you used the "Convert to spline" context menu on the offset
ellipse?

 

In case you went through one of these
workflows, itcould very well be that you are working with a spline that "looks"
like an ellipse but isn't. And we don't dimension
splines in Inventor.

 

Bob

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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Has
anyone else been unable to dimension ellipses in INV 6 idw's? I'm sure I
remember doing it in INV 5.3.

Mike

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Anonymous
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‎01-22-2003 11:20 PM
‎01-22-2003 11:20 PM

Yeah ... those flexible splines can be pretty
inflexible at times, eh? Maybe that's why I find myself simulating them
sometimes using the points to make three-point arcs then delete the
spline.

~Larry


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

I don't see this in R6SP1. Let me
guess.

 

Guess 1: could this be an offset
ellipse?

There are two sorts of offset ellipses, one that
remains a true ellipse and one that is a spline (depending on the
position of the initial pick point during offset creation)

 

Guess 2:could it
be that you used the "Convert to spline" context menu on the offset
ellipse?

 

In case you went through one of these
workflows, itcould very well be that you are working with a spline that
"looks" like an ellipse but isn't. And we don't
dimension splines in Inventor.

 

Bob

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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Has
anyone else been unable to dimension ellipses in INV 6 idw's? I'm sure I
remember doing it in INV 5.3.

Mike

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