Tabular Dimensioning - Settings (2-D)

2-D Dimensioning + Text > Process > Extras > Settings

You use this function to define the text parameters for tabular dimensioning. Select the parameters you want from the following tabs:

• General
• Columns
• Sorting
• Other

Once you have made the settings you require, click OK to exit the window.

If you want the settings to apply to existing tabular dimensions, right-click the table and choose the Setting function in the context menu that appears.

General Tab

• Favourites
  You can save the table settings. Enter the file name in the Favourites field , and click the disk symbol. The file is saved with the file name extension .MT2 in the HiCAD SYS directory.
• Font type and frame
  You use the Font Type symbol to define the text display. The line colour refers to the horizontal and vertical lines of the table.
• Rows per table and table distance
  You can also divide tables according to a certain number of rows. To do this, specify the number of rows per table and then the distance of the individual tables from one another. If you do not want the table to be divided, set the Rows per Table field to 0.
• Title and footer text
  Here, you can assign the table a title and a footer text. These texts are displayed above (title) or below the table.
• Number of decimal places
• Point symbols or processing symbols
  If you want to use point and processing symbols from the HiCAD symbol table, enter the relevant symbol number.
• Annotation distance and angle
  The values specified in the table are marked accordingly in the drawing. You determine the position of this annotation by specifying the annotation distance and angle.
• Annotation to centre
  Activate this checkbox if you want the annotation of the tabular dimensioning to be placed in the centre of the corresponding standard processing.

Columns Tab

On this tab, you define which attribute you want to be displayed in which column. The headers of the columns are displayed on the left and the attribute for the contents on the right. If you double-click the attribute, you activate a pull-down menu containing further attributes for changing the column contents.

Sorting Tab

On this tab, you define the table's sort criteria. To copy a sort criterion from the Templates column, select the relevant entry and click the arrow key. Similarly, you use the key to remove sort criteria.

You use the and keys to change the sort order.

It makes sense to activate the Block sorting checkbox, for example, if you want to subsequently include bores in the table and not sort them, but append them at the end of the table. In this case, activate the Block sorting checkbox before enhancing the table, enhance the table and then revoke activation of the checkbox.

Other Tab

• Point designation
  Point designation determines the annotation of standard processings.
• Increment
  If this box is active, a (consecutive) different code letter is used in numbering for additional tables for different levels. If, for example, you have created a table for a level with numbering W1, W2 etc., then the next table for a different level uses the numbering X1, X2 … .
• Bore and thread diameters
  Bore and thread diameters can, if required, be displayed differently in the table. For example, you can place an M before thread diameters

 Related Topics

Tabular Dimensioning (2-D) • Text + Dimensiooning: Extras (2-D)