Slotted holes dimmensioning

[lipskiszymon]

Hello,
Is there any option to set Slotted holes dimmensioning and labeling like in the attachment?

[crydee-AG1]

Hi,

The token for the slot width (W) is Bolt Diameter and the slot length L is Length. So the label should say "Ø%Diameter x %Length Slot" or similar.

[lipskiszymon]

Thanks but it does not solve my problem.
I would like to achieve dimensioning and labeling like in the first method (attachement),
Now I have the second one.

[crydee-AG1]

Hi,

Is your slot a hole made by a bolt or hole command or is it a polygon contour made by one of the contour features. You can only get the lower image if the slot is a contour. If it is a hole you can try playing with the Default > Drawing Dimensioning > General > Slotted hole dimensioning configuration.

[lipskiszymon]

There is no such option.

[crydee-AG1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

That is the option you show in your picture. Different builds have slightly different names.

[lipskiszymon]

It only changes dimensioning not labeling (atachment) so it does not solve my problem.
Taking opportunity, why the vertical location of the hole is not dimensioned?

[Drawtech · Accepted solution]

If you want the label to use the hole centre dimension for the length you can use some vbscript to modify the value:

Try this for the label definition:

%BoltCount No. %Diameterøx%%script(LenTotal = %Length: LenCtrs = LenTotal-%Diameter: appendstring LenCtrs)ctrs slotted holes

I use vbscript in many of my label definitions to get the output that I want. 🙂

[lipskiszymon]

Thanks a lot! That works!
What about vertical dimension of bolt localization?

I've added an internal Y dimension request similary to the internal X direction but it does not work.(attachment)

[Drawtech · Accepted solution]

That Y dimension request is only giving the system points of the holes and nothing else - hence no dimension.

It needs the extreme points of the plate as well.

Not sure what is under the X dimension request that you have marked?

If it only contains the holes, this is not the request giving your X dimension and must be one of the other dim requests!

[lipskiszymon]

Thanks a lot !
I've found the mistake in default settings (atachment).

[Julio_Soto]

is it possible to learn this scripting power?

[Drawtech]

Yes! ...I taught myself through a few online resources and a lot of trial and error!
Once you have a few working examples, it's easy to create others by changing the variable names and tokens to suit and standard VBscript functions:
https://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_ref_vbscript_functions.asp