PWATSON Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Hi Everyone. This is a technique i use when dimensioning in CAXA which saves me quite a bit of time. I figured i would post in case there are some out there who are not aware of CAXA's strength when dimensioning drawings. It is possible to make changes to your dimensions at the time of placing the dimension rather than placing the dimension and then going back to edit. In order to do this, a right mouse click is done when placing the dimension. This will open the dimension properties dialog box which will give you options to change the style, add notes, add prefixes and suffixes, tolerances ect before the dimension is placed onto the drawing. I created this short video to show the technique. If this is new to anyone I hope it helps. Cheers Peter CAXA_dimension_tip.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Crowe Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Nice job with the video Peter. Thanks for posting. Malcolm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Thanks Peter great tip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dleczynski Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Peter my tips for you I've seen that your templates have a reference point in the corner. I know that such a system causes the views and BOMs to shift. As you can see, the scaling of projections is through the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWATSON Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 That's a great tip for scaling the templates.. Thanks. Now Im going to go and modify all my templates Cheers Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dleczynski Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Next tip. You can not create clean templates you have to use the existing one, to keep the layout correct (this is a bug but you must know how to get around) - if you want to keep a 5 mm clearance from the frame. I am sending my own in the attachment. C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\CAXA\CAXA CAD CXIC-INT-IRONCAD 2019 (x64)\19.0\pl-PL\Template Template.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWATSON Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 Thanks Dariusz I appreciate the help. cheers Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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