Larry If you were using Ordinate dims its unlikely that you would be
dimensioning to a feature not normal to the plane in that set.
You would more than likely make a separate view aligned to the feature and
dimension only that feature in that to a datum, what do you think?
I guess that he is trying to dimension the feature which is not normal to
the view plane by his own admission, and this is where the discrepancy lies?
Like I said in my previous post you need to dimension exactly as it was
constructed?
Unless the feature has been constructed and aligned to some normal axis /
planes, having said that this method would be almost impossible to
accurately set up for machining?
All just theory and superstition without seeing the goods as you said
earlier.
--
Laurence,
Power is nothing without Control
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"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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> I think I see what you're getting at. Many shortcomings in the drawing
> module haven't been addressed due, I would guess, to insufficient wining.
I
> would use a section to dim in that instance, but they haven't fixed the
> section command so it can actually do sections correctly either. Maybe
they
> figure eyeball is close enough or they think most people "won't use that"
> and they're working on a Inventor ProSec version.
> ~Larry
>
> "Billduck" wrote in message
> news:9857380.1075696230197.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com...
> > The model holes are cut through the skin directly toward the C/L of the
> barrel. However, in some cases the workplane is rotated say 15 degrees
from
> the XZ workplane.So when I create the views in an IDW I am seeing radial
> holes, the axis of which are not normal to the view created. All of this
is
> as would be expected. But adding a dimension to that hole from the bottom
of
> the barrel doesn't work. I say this because I know the spacing of 2 holes
> along the axis of the barrel is 6" in the model, but does not dimension at
> 6" in the IDW. I think I am going about it incorrectly. Thanks
>
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