Additional driven dimention during piping and tubing

[adrianaarsland]

Hello! 🙂

I've recently started using tubing and piping in inventor. I've noticed that whenever I start a tube run and place the first piece of tube, I get the dimension of the length (in this case 52mm), and then I get an additional ''Driven dimension'' displayed like: (52).

What is this driven dimension good for? And if there is no use for it, is there a way disable them from appearing?

 Thank you in advance 🙂

[matthew.hansche · Accepted solution]

I have used T&P extensively and I know that the Normal dimension is the user-input dimension (whatever length you defined in the route sketch). According to Autodesk the driven dimension is used for "dynamic updates" but I cannot say that I have ever worked with this feature (although I am sure others here have). To my knowledge there is no way to turn it off... 

[adrianaarsland]

Alright, thank you! Nothing of major importance then I guess 😄