Dimensioning Settings (3-D)

Steel Engineering > Further functions > Settings > Dimensioning Settings

Use this function to individually configure dimensionings for Steel Engineering workshop drawings. This applies to:

Chains of dimensions
Bores / Boltings
Designation tags
the Dimension type, and
General settings for the dimensioning.

When you call the function the Dimensioning Settings window is displayed. Select which settings window you want to activate by clicking the appropriate button.

The Dimensioning Settings window

Chains of dimensions

The Chains of dimensions window enables you to individually specify for:

chains of dimensions parallel to the beam axis,
chains of dimensions perpendicular to then beam axis, and
chains of dimensions for sheets and plates,

to which views you want to apply the dimensionings. Click the Views... button to the right of the appropriate entry and select the desired views by activating or deactivating the corresponding checkboxes.

The Chains of dimensions dialogue window

When you exit the window with OK, the Settings for dimensioning window is displayed again.

Bores/Boltings

In this dialogue window you specify which bore and bolting diameters you want to dimension, and the way in which you want to dimension slots: Do not dimension, Length/Width or Centre/Diameter.

In addition, you can influence the position of dimensionings for bores/boltings. You can, for instance, specify whether you want to separate chains of dimensions for main parts and sub-parts, etc.

The Bores/Boltings dialogue window

When you exit the window with OK, the Settings for dimensioning window is displayed again.

Designation tags

This function enables you to define various settings for the designation tags in a workshop drawing.

For example, you can select for bore designation tags whether you want to use the designation for the bore or for the appropriate bolt. Furthermore, you can add an auxiliary text consisting of up to 20 characters and you can determine whether the number of bores is specified or not.

In the lower part of the dialogue window you can select a different line type for the designation tag for sub-parts, bores or boltings on the back of a part.

The Designation tags dialogue window

When you exit the window with OK, the Settings for dimensioning window is displayed again.

Dimension type

Use this function to specify the type of dimensioning in the workshop drawing. Possible are:

Chain dimension
Running dimension
Coordinate dimension
Running chain dimension

The selection can be separately applied to

Beams parallel to beam axis
Beams perpendicular to beam axis
Plates in longitudinal direction and
Plates perpendicular to longitudinal direction.

The Dimension type dialogue window

When you exit the window with OK, the Settings for dimensioning window is displayed again.

General

Use this function to define general settings.

Examples are:

distance of the dimension line to the part
distances between the dimension lines
chains of dimensions perpendicular to beam axes regarding lower edge, upper edge, lower+upper edge or axis
dimensioning of front plates
etc.

The General dialogue window

When you exit the window with OK, the Dimensioning Settings window is displayed again.