Part of my model consists of a rail made of bent tubing. I've created a 2D drawing and tried to give dimensions etc with reference to the centrelines of the tubing. The centreline tool works fine for the straight bits but doesn't work at all for the bent bits, so I've used the sketch tool to create centreline arcs that start and end orthogonally to the straight bits.
Linear dimensions to the 'proper' centrelines work fine, but the arc radii don't match the dimensions.
Why?
I have not tried how this works in any of the other CAD packages I use.
My expectation would be that if the drawing environment offers the ability to create a center line, then I would expect when dimensioning it that the dimensioning takes the drawing scale into account.
I would NOT expect having to use a workaround.
after reading the other replies i'm wondering if I miss-understood your question. I'm assuming you drew the your "center lines" while in the drawings environment, using the rudimentary drawing tools there.
if not, disregard any of my replies.
if so-
-there isn't a scale setting for an entire drawing, each individual model view has it's own scale setting. lines draw in the drawings environment aren't associated with a model view, so don't have a particular "scale."
-the "center line type" in drawing views is just referring to how it looks (continuous, dashed, etc.), not it's function. still just a "dumb line"
-create a sketch in the design environment (in this pic I made a sketch and then used pipe command)
when you make your drawing, toggle the sketch on-
