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"jorgen" <bjornes@email.com>Sometimes
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I amaze myself. (amazed that did not do this before).
Using my beloved
MacroMaker ;), I now only do a ctrl-R to reset the measurment
tool
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
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How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure flyout?? For
example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click on the measure flyout,
measure two points in my assy, I get something like 39.000000000000004"..I
usally will highlight this and then type in just plain 39. I know that the
system just adds in the trailing .00000000000004, however, it makes it a real
pain when I go back to edit a part. All I can see in the text window is the
.00000000000004... I have to cursor over just to find the 39. Does this make
any sense? How can I force it to display just the rounded number? With a
string of numbers and operators like you mentioned, I could see it being a
real mess!
Thanks
Denis
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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To be honest I don't see this 0.000000000004
problem that a lot of others do. I am very careful to fully constraint
my model with 2,3, and 4 place decimals and I rarely find a measurement that
ends up being off by the 12th of 13th decimal place. To me (in many
situations) this is an indication that something is wrong in my model.
If you have very odd shaped parts then you are probably more likely to see
this. Most of my stuff is plates and cylinders, not swoopy
surfaces...
In the few cases that I do have a dim like this I
take the full value. If my model is off by 1 billionth of an inch then I
carry it through as I know my machine shop isn't going to be able to get this
close (although I try to make them <g>)
I would like an expandable dimension edit box for
this reason however. You bring up a good point...
An alternative is to go to the parameters
dialogue (where you have a bit more room to edit) but it has problems of it's
own... 😞
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Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
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How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure flyout??
For example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click on the measure
flyout, measure two points in my assy, I get something like
39.000000000000004"..I usally will highlight this and then type in just
plain 39. I know that the system just adds in the trailing .00000000000004,
however, it makes it a real pain when I go back to edit a part. All I can
see in the text window is the .00000000000004... I have to cursor over just
to find the 39. Does this make any sense? How can I force it to display just
the rounded number? With a string of numbers and operators like you
mentioned, I could see it being a real mess!
Thanks
Denis
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"Sean Dotson" <sean at sdotson dot com> wrote in message
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To be honest I don't see this 0.000000000004
problem that a lot of others do. I am very careful to fully constraint
my model with 2,3, and 4 place decimals and I rarely find a measurement that
ends up being off by the 12th of 13th decimal place. To me (in many
situations) this is an indication that something is wrong in my model.
If you have very odd shaped parts then you are probably more likely to see
this. Most of my stuff is plates and cylinders, not swoopy
surfaces...
In the few cases that I do have a dim like this I
take the full value. If my model is off by 1 billionth of an inch then I
carry it through as I know my machine shop isn't going to be able to get this
close (although I try to make them <g>)
I would like an expandable dimension edit box for
this reason however. You bring up a good point...
An alternative is to go to the parameters
dialogue (where you have a bit more room to edit) but it has problems of it's
own... 😞
--
Sean Dotson, PE
href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions
href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"ddschoemaker" <Sean,
href="mailto:ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com">ddschoemaker@taylorcorp.com>
wrote in message
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How do you deal with the 14 decimal places when using the measure flyout??
For example, If I start an extrusion of a new sketch, click on the measure
flyout, measure two points in my assy, I get something like
39.000000000000004"..I usally will highlight this and then type in just
plain 39. I know that the system just adds in the trailing .00000000000004,
however, it makes it a real pain when I go back to edit a part. All I can
see in the text window is the .00000000000004... I have to cursor over just
to find the 39. Does this make any sense? How can I force it to display just
the rounded number? With a string of numbers and operators like you
mentioned, I could see it being a real mess!
Thanks
Denis