Setting global precision?

[saltedfish]

Hi all!

I'm hoping this is the right place for this question:

I'd like to find a setting in Inventor 2014 to force all dimensions on drawings to have four places. As it is set up now the drawings automatically round to two places - which is annoying because after each dimension I have to manually set it to four places for every dimension I put on the drawing. Obviously this is really tedious and some searching shows that I can open the Manage > Styles Editor > Dimension tree > Standard (ANSI) and then change Format to "4.1234."

The problem is the setting does not persist between drawings - opening a new drawing and testing reveals that the setting has reverted to the "2.12" setting. I need the setting to remain permanent across all drawings. I tried changing the dropdown menu in the upper right to "Active Standard," "Local Styles" and "All Styles" and setting each one to the "4.1234" standard, but again, the program reverts to the "2.12" standard as soon as I close the current drawing and open a new one.

I have a hard time believing that Inventor 2014 doesn't have some method of enforcing a global setting. I'm sure I'm overlooking something and hoping that someone here can point me int he right direction. Thanks in advance!

[mdavis22569]

Welcome to the Forums

You want the regular forum ... however people can help here too, don't worry

It's done thru your Style Manager. you'll need to set up a 4 place dimension style.

[saltedfish]

Ahh, so create a 4th style and set that to default? So that all future drawings conform to that style? Excellent, I'll give that a try. Thank you for the reply.

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[mdavis22569]

Let me know if you need anything else ...

here is an example one ..you would import it into your main IDW

Mike

[saltedfish]

I can't test your solution right now, but I will try it as soon as possible and get back to you. For now, I will leave the question as "unanswered" and update when I can. Thanks for your help and have a good one!

[saltedfish]

So now that I'm back at work, I tried to make a new standard and set it to four places of precision.

I went to Manage > Styles Editor > Dimension > Default (ANSI) and clicked on "New" at the top. I called it "4 Places" for lack of a better name. I set the precision to four places, as I wanted, and hit "Save."

Then I couldn't find it at all in the dropdown menu, but went to check to see if it had any effect. I opened a print and tried some dimensions and they were still defaulting to the the two places.

On a hunch, I went back to the Styles Editor and modified "Default (ANSI)" to have four places. I hit save, and tested a print. It still wouldn't show four places, so I took a closer look at the pictures you posted. I found the "Style" dropdown menu at the far right of the Annotate tab. It was empty, but I discovered it only offered options if you click "Dimension." So I did, noticed it set itself to "By Standard," and selected the "Default (ANSI)" style. The resulting dimensions had the desired four places. Hopeful, I closed the print, and reopened it. I made some more dimensions only to find that the program had discarded my changes to the "Default (ANSI)" style.

So at this point I understand how to force the drawing to use four places on a drawing by drawing basis. However, I want it to always have that option set so that I don't have to slog through menus every time I make a print (which is often).

Thank you in advance for your patient help. I feel we're close to a solution, it's just a matter of forcing Inventor to save the changes.

Edit: I tried importing that .styxml you posted, and nothing seemed to happen.

[saltedfish]

I'd like to resurrect this discussion because I am having the same problem, again. New computer means all the things I managed to fix are now unfixed.

I have altered the style through the Styles Editor and no matter what I do, it resets to two place precision each time I start a new drawing. Could you please explain how to fix this?

Thanks!

[WillL84]

Another thread necro. I'm having the same issue (also new PC) but with Inventor 2015. I'll change the default and save it but next time I create a drawing it defaults back to 2 decimal places. How do I make it permanent?

[swilson4CJV3]

By default Inventor only saves the style as a "local" style to drawing. You have to right-click (in the tree) and choose "save to style library". You will want to create a new style so you don't overwrite a default style and start cursing next time you update Inventor and your changes to the default styles are overwritten. If you modify an existing style in the style library, you may have to "pull" the changes into existing drawings by right-clicking in the tree and choosing update style.