Creating a smart dimension on hole feature.

[tgjang]

Hi

An IronCAD user creates a hole and wants to create a smart dimension, but the centre of the hole is not highlighted, how can the user easily create a smart dimension?
When the user selects the wall of the Hole, the dimension is sometimes squashed instead of being perpendicular to the side the user wants to put the dimension on.

Thanks.

[IronKevin]

Hold Shift and click the wall of the hole.

[Jonas@Solidmakarna]

There are at least three options! Kevins suggestion is usually the best. Remember that with the [Shift] key, you will always "Snap to Center" in many commands. But you can also;

1. Rotate the camera to see the center of the hole placed in front of the "hole depth" (mantel surface). Typical case on thin models, like Sheet Metal parts.
   
2. Hold down the [Ctrl] key when the mouse cursor is placed "within the Sizebox, touching the Shape" to place a Smart Dimension from the Anchor Point. A "cyan blue little dot" will appear "behind" the Anchor Point (hint hint, ER please!  ).
   
   
   Since a Cylinder Shape dropped from a catalog usually have the Anchor Point placed in its center, it's a useful option. I most often use this when creating parametric models with some locked Smart Dimensions acting as constraints. I usually prefer controlling the Anchor Point (which always controls the geometry) rather than a green face/edge/vertex of the Shape.

[tgjang]

Thank you very much Kevin & Jonas. 

[tlehnhaeuser]

WOW #2  is news to me, thanks Jonas