Hole Dimension - still messed up

[pdnm1]

I know this is a known bug and has been for a few releases now. Any idea when the heck ADesk is going to address this? This can be very costly if the designer or engineer are not aware of this issue.

In a metric part/drawing, you dimension a hole with the hole note/thread (dimension) command, this hole has a depth to it, the depth will show up in inch units, but shown as metric units. In other words, 0.5" will show up as 0,5mm, not 12,7mm as it should. See attached pic.

As it is we have to edit the hole dimension and manually type in the depth or dimension the holes with the standard linear dimension command which then leads us to having to manually input other info.

Please tell me this has been fixed for Inventor 2009!

[pdnm1]

Note the depth of 0,62 in the picture is the inch depth.
It should read: 15,75mm

[Anonymous]

I'm not familiar with this issue at all.

Were you given a case ID number or can you refer me to a newsgroup thread
where this we discussed.

Can you post the drawing and model?

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Andrew Faix
Product Designer
Autodesk Inventor


wrote in message news:5874362@discussion.autodesk.com...
I know this is a known bug and has been for a few releases now. Any idea
when the heck ADesk is going to address this? This can be very costly if the
designer or engineer are not aware of this issue.

In a metric part/drawing, you dimension a hole with the hole note/thread
(dimension) command, this hole has a depth to it, the depth will show up in
inch units, but shown as metric units. In other words, 0.5" will show up as
0,5mm, not 12,7mm as it should. See attached pic.

As it is we ha
ve to edit the hole dimension and manually type in the depth or dimension
the holes with the standard linear dimension command which then leads us to
having to manually input other info.

Please tell me this has been fixed for Inventor 2009!

[pcunningham1]

It looks like the hole was created using inch units for the depth. If this is the case simply uncheck the 'Part Units' option on the edit hole note dialog box.

Another fix would be to change the hole depth in the part to be the metric equivalent of .62 inches.

-Paul Cunningham

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that's what it looks like as well, but I'd like to have confirmation.


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Andrew Faix
Product Designer
Autodesk Inventor



wrote in message news:5874658@discussion.autodesk.com...
It looks like the hole was created using inch units for the depth. If this
is the case simply uncheck the 'Part Units' option on the edit hole note
dialog box.

Another fix would be to change the hole depth in the part to be the metric
equivalent of .62 inches.

-Paul Cunningham

[pdnm1]

In this case, the hole in the part was in fact created using inch depths, has since been changed to metric and the issue still exists. The part's units is set as metric and always was. I have no idea why the user had input these holes as inch units when the rest of the part is in metric.

Just as a test, I just created a new part and everything works out fine.

So I assume this issue only happens when the user inputs the original depths as inch and thus even changing them to metric untis after the fact, it somehow still refers back to the original input type? Message was edited by: pdnm1

[pdnm1]

Andrew,

I personally don't have a case number, but I do know a co-worker of mine posted this issue here at least a year or so ago. I can ask her if she ever sent in a bug report or not.

[Anonymous]

That's not a workflow I'm familiar with at all (changing unit types
after-the-fact).

I'll ask QA to test this out and log an issue if necessary.

From the drawing side, if you know you always want metric units, I'd uncheck
that use part units option to mitigate this problem all together.

Thanks,

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Andrew Faix
Product Designer
Autodesk Inventor



wrote in message news:5875005@discussion.autodesk.com...
In this case, the hole in the part was in fact created using inch depths,
has since been changed to metric and the issue still exists. The part's
units is set as metric and always was. I have no idea why the user had input
these holes as inch units when the rest of the part is in metric.

Just as a test, I just created a new part and everything works out fine.

So I assume this issue only happens when the user inputs the original depths
as inch and thus even changing them to metric untis after the fact, it
somehow still refers back to the original input type?

Message was edited by: pdnm1

[pcunningham1]

It does seem that after changing the part units and/or the hole depth dimnension units back and forth , the 'Use Part Units' option has no effect.

-Paul Cunningham

[pdnm1]

Paul and Andrew, please let me clarify,

The part units never changed, it's always been metric. Our part templates are all set to metric units.

What I was trying to say is that the units used in the insert hole menu was input as inch, not metric. See attached pic.

I hope that clarifies this.