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SOLID EDGE UNIVERSITY UK 2015

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Solid Edge University UK 2015

July 8th, Silverstone UTC

Solid Edge Drafting

Paul Abbott

2014-05-13


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Introduction

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Agenda

• Quick Look Topics

• Dimension and Annotation Usability -

Dimension

• Dimension and Annotation Usability -

Annotation

• Format Code UI Improvements

• Parts List From Selected Assembly

• Property/Reference Text Support in

Text Box

• Thread Dimension Retrieval

Enhancements

• Drawing Sheet Compare

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Agenda

• Best of the Rest

• Custom Material Properties Support

in Draft

• Reference Text in Additional

Annotations

• Technical Requirements Text

• C-Diameter Alignment

• Hole Callout Improvements

• Reference Part Display Control

• Optional Not Display Drawing View

Out-of-date

• Table Text Margin Control

• Free 2D Drafting license

• Scaled Nailboards

• Solid Edge Hints and Tips

• Some commonly asked questions -

answered






Quick Look Topics

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Dimension and Annotation Usability -

Dimensions

• Dimension Usability has been improved in ST8 with the handle points on

screen to make the following Dimensions more consistence and easier to

modified without going into properties of each Dimension.

• Connect Handles

• Modify Handles

• Dimension Text Handles

• Break Line Handles

• Shared Connect Point

• Text Position Snap to Center

• Jog Snap Position

• Selected Dimension Display with Hidden or Modified Components

• Extension Line along Projection Line

• Terminator Handle

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Dimensions

• Handle colors have been added (Solid Edge Options) to help understand the

different types of handles such as connect handles or modify handles.

• Connect Handle – This is the handle at which the annotation is connected to

another object.

• Modify Handles – These are the handles that can be dragged to manipulate

the annotation display.

• Terminator Handle – This is the handle to bring up the terminator dialog box.

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Dimension and Annotation Usability –

Dimensions

• Break line dimensions display a modify handle at the text end of the break line.

• This handle is used to change the length of the break line.

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Dimensions

• Chain and Stacked Dimensions

• Shared connect point handles will only display one modify handle for both

dimensions.

• If the modify handle is moved it will move both extension lines at the same

time. (“Shift+Drag” will move only the highlighted modify connection point.)

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Dimensions

• Text Position Snap

• A new indicator has been added to display the midpoint on a dimension line.

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Dimensions

• Jog Snap Position

• A snap line indicator is displayed to show where the jog line will snap to

remove the jog.

• This does not change the jog behavior. It is just displaying feedback to

where the jog is removed.

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Dimensions*

• Selected Dimension Display with Hidden or Modified Components.

• Projection lines and Dimension lines can now be hidden with a left mouse

click on the Terminator Handle.

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Dimensions

• Extension Line along Projection Line

• When an Projection line is shorten, a dashed line is visible to display where

the connection point for that dimension is located.

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Dimensions

• Terminator Handle

• To change the appearance of the Terminator, user can left mouse click the

Terminator handle to bring up a shortcut menu and then select the

Terminator type.

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Dimensions*

• Radial, Diameter, Angular, Coordinate, Angular Coordinate, Symmetric

Diameter and Chamfer dimensions all have the same type of handles and

functionality as the above slides.

DEMO-1

../../../../../Training/ST8 Update Training/ST8 What's New/Armourdillo/ARM-0128.dft

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Annotations*

• Annotation Usability has been improved in ST8 with the handle points on

screen to make the following annotations more consistence and easier to

modify without going into properties of each annotation.

• Balloons

• Callouts

• Datum Frame

• Weld Symbol

• Datum Target

• Surface Texture Symbol

• Feature Control Frame

• Leader

• Centerline

• Cutting Plane Line

• Auxiliary View Plane Line

• Detail View

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Annotations

• Connect Handle

• Dragging the connect handle will move the connection point of the

annotation.

• Alt+Drag breaks the connection point

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Annotations

• New to ST8 is the display of a Leader Snap tool.

• Past releases Solid Edge would only snap to 0,90,180,270 degrees. ST8 now

snaps to 45 degree increments 45,135,225,315 degrees in addition to the

above.

• Leader snap tool

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Annotations

• If the leader has a break line plus a jog inserted.

• Start dragging the jog will display multiple leader snap tools.

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Annotations

• Surface Texture

• This handle changes the length of the line.

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Annotations

• Weld Symbol

• This handle flips the symbol direction.

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Annotations*

• Datum Frame

• Left click Terminator handle will bring up Anchor options.

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Annotations*

• Centerline

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Annotations*

• Cutting Plane Line

• Right mouse click this handle will give the user the option to flip the

annotation.

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Annotations

• Auxiliary View

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Annotations

• Detail View

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Format Code UI Improvements

• Remember having to type the Format Codes for your reference/property text

and user must know the proper syntax?

• A new user interface makes it easier to modify the Format code values of

reference text and property text.

• You can use the new Format Values dialog box to insert format codes directly

into the property text

and reference text

strings.

• Available in Draft,

Ordered Sketch,

PMI

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Format Code UI Improvements*

• Format Code dialog can be found in the Properties or the Modify Styles for the

following:

• Text box

• Dimension

• Callouts

• Balloons

• Drawing View captions

• View Annotation caption

• Part list and Table titles

• Part list and Table data columns

• Block labels

• For annotations that are not listed above (such as feature control frames,

datum frames, datum targets, weld symbols, and surface texture symbols) you

can apply formatting to the property text values by typing the format codes

using the proper syntax.

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Input value – this is the selected property

Tolerance – Add a upper/lower tolerance

to the dimension

Units – Turn of the display units on the dimension

Units – Display Dual units for that dimension

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Text

• Round-off – number of decimal places to

display.

• Date-time – only if associated to the property

then it can be displayed and format chosen.

• Text case – Upper/Lower case text.

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Output value – Displays the syntax of the final output.

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• Callout text has to be selected before the Format button is available.

• Selected text displays red

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• Dual Units on primary dimension

• Rounding

• No Units

• Date/Time

• Date Time

• Tolerance

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Parts List From Selected Assembly

• Now you can create a parts list based on a selected subassembly in context

of a top level assembly.

• Part numbers and item

balloons are based

solely on the

subassembly.

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• A new option has been added to the Parts List command bar, “From Selected

Subassembly”.

• Once selected the “Select Subassembly

dialog box is displayed.

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• In order to use the “From Selected Subassembly” the user must first deselect

the “Link to Active” command.

Selected

Deselected

• Then select the subassembly view and the “From Selected Subassembly” is

available.

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• If there is not Parts List present and a subassembly is selected the “From

Selected Subassembly” command becomes active.

Before selecting the subassembly

After selecting the subassembly

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Property/Reference Text Support in Text

Box

• Text Box command now supports property text and reference text.

• When creating a Text Box a new command called Insert Property Text has

been added to the Text Box quick access ribbon bar.

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Box

• Text Box has to be drawn on the sheet before the option is available.

• 2 options

• Property Text

• Reference Text

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Box

• Property Text option will link text in the Text Box to any selected property from

the selection.

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Box

• Reference Text option will link text in the Text Box to any selected reference

source locate on any sheet of the drawing.

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Box

• Using the command

• Start the Text Box command.

• Click in the drawing and place the text box.

• Insert Property Text option.

• Select either the Property Text or Reference text.

• This will link that Property or Reference select inside the Note.

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Box*

• Property code text can be displayed by Right Mouse clicking the Text Box.

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Thread Dimension Retrieval Enhancements

• In previous releases of Solid Edge the hole callout dimensions for threaded

holes would always dimension to the drill hole size and ignore the major

diameter.

• ST8 now has the ability to dimension to the major diameter per dimension

standards.

Previous releases ST8

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Thread Dimension Retrieval Enhancements*

• Section cutout support dimensioning to the major diameter for both Callouts

and Linear dimensions.

• Legacy drawings do not update to move a dimension from the tap drill

geometry to the major diameter.

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Drawing Sheet Compare

• Solid Edge ST8 has a new Drawing Sheet Compare command.

• Compare Drawing command only compares pixel changes in each drawing.

• Compare Drawing command is located under the applications button.

• Support for Solid Edge “.dft” file types only.

• Draft files open inactive/read-only and open in Solid Edge in the background.

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Drawing Sheet Compare*

• Open Existing Comparison –

Saved “.bmp bitmap” files of

compared drawings.

• Solid Edge “.dft” files to compare.

Must select 2 files.

• Sheet selection of each drawing

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• Compares the 2 drawings

selected

• Once drawings are compared, the

compared drawings can be saved

as a bitmap file.

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• Information to display in the

viewport windows. 5 different

options

• View colors for each file.

• Sheet background color

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• Zoom Area

• Fit

• Pan

• Zoom

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• Differences in the

2 drawings

• File 1

• File 2

• File information

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• When comparing drawings the user can choose which sheet of a multi-sheet

drawing to compare.

• If the sheets are different sizes from file 1 to file 2 the Compare drawing

command will give the following error.

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• Saving the compared results

• When saving the compared the only save as option is “.bmp”.

• 3 files are save with the save as

• [Name Input from User]_Differences

• [Name Input from User]_Original

• [Name Input from User]_New

• This only saves the 2 sheets currently being compared; no other sheets are

saved if it’s a multi-sheet drawing.

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• Open Comparison bitmap file

• The only option for opening the comparison file is [Name Input from

User]_Differences.

DEMO-6

../../../../../Training/ST8 Update Training/ST8 What's New/Armourdillo/Working/control bracket.dft

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Drawing Sheet Compare – Managed*

• Solid Edge for Sharepoint and Insight support the new Compare Drawing tool.

• SESP

• Click Manage under the Applications button and choose SESP before you

can open the Drawing Compare tool.

• Insight

• User will be able to navigate to the network location as if it were a location on

their local machine.

• When saving a comparison file, the file needs to be saved locally, saving to

managed locations will be unavailable.

• Opening a comparison file will also be limited to only local files.

• Opening drawing files from Team Center is not supported.






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Custom Material Properties Support in Draft

• ST7 Custom Material Properties had been added to part modeling. In the draft

file Solid Edge could not extract any custom property in callouts.

• ST8 now has the ability to use any type of Custom Material Property in callouts

when using property text.

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• In the draft file when placing a callout

using a Custom Material Property

the user has to use the property text

command and From graphic

connection to link the property.

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• The Custom Material Properties can also be extracted in the Parts List.

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Reference Text in Additional Annotations

• Reference text functionality began in ST7. With ST8 the Reference text has

been expanded into the following areas:

• Cutting Plane

• Auxiliary View Plane

• Detail Envelope

• GOST Weld Symbol

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• Cutting Plane

• Cutting Plane annotations can now be selected from within the Callout

command once the user goes into the Reference text command.

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• Auxiliary View Plane

• Auxiliary View Plane annotations can now be selected from within the

Callout command once the user goes into the Reference text command.

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• Detail Envelope

• Detail Envelope annotations can now be selected from within the Callout

command once the user goes into the Reference text command.

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Technical Requirements Text

• New command in ST8 is Technical Requirements.

• Technical Requirement command creates a text box

to capture mechanical information about the drawing

with a numbered list.

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• Once in the command, the command ribbon bar is displayed.

• Text scale, Properties and Text Control can be changed

from the ribbon.

• ONLY one Technical Requirement Text box instance allowed on each draft

working sheet.

• If there is already a technical requirement text box instance, then clicking the

text box will bring up the ribbon bar.

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• Shortcut command are provided for technical requirements.

• Cut/Copy command is disabled simply because there is no support for

multiple technical requirement on the same draft sheet.

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• How it works.

Enter the note here

Press the Insert button

Note with number callout is

displayed

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• How it works.

Save settings – works the

same as any other Save

settings location.

Reference - works the

same as Reference in

other locations

Style – Select the style for

the number callout and what

type of format to display.

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• How it works.

Change the order of the

notes

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• Location Tab

Anchor corner – options for

locating the text box.

Position – use an “X – Y”

origin location to place text

box.

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• Text Format Tab

Font control options

Text Control – options to

control the fit of the text

inside the text box.

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• Title Tab

Title text – Adds a title to the

text box.

Reference controls that can

be used in the title.

Font and Font Styles

Justification

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• Indents and Spacing Tab

Indentation – indents the text

from the left side of the text

box. Special options for

Indentation.

Spacing – controls the

spacing between each line of

text.

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C-Diameter Alignment

• In previous releases of Solid Edge, Smart Dimensions would place “C-

Diameter dimensions (Concentric Diameter). This command had no way to

automatically stack, align, group and space dimensions.

• New to ST8 is an option in the command ribbon bar called “Concentric

Diameter” when using the Smart Dimension command.

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• Concentric Diameter automatically stacks, aligns, groups and spaces

dimensions.

• After the first dimension is placed all of the other C-Diameter dimensions only

require a single click to select the diameter. The placement is automatic.

• When using the C-Diameter command all dimensions are forced to be linear.

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• Concentric Diameter dimensions can not be stack, align, grouped or spaced

with any other dimensions.

• Alt+drag will break the alignment group of the selected dimension.

• C-Diameter alignment groups work like all alignment groups in Solid Edge.

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• Dimension Styles has an option on the “Lines and Coordinate” tab to

Alternate text position.

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Hole Callout Improvements

• This is an addition to the Format codes for Hole Callouts.

• The following codes have been added to the Format code list under Symbols

and Values, Values, Feature References.

• Taper Ratio and Taper Angle

• V-Bottom Angle

• Thread

• Tap drill diameter

• Internal minor diameter

• Nominal diameter

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Hole Callout Improvements

• Underline Text

• An option has been added to Underline Text in callouts.

• GB standard now supports

Underline Text

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Reference Part Display Control

• New option has been added to Solid Edge option to control the default

appearance of Reference parts in a drawing.

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• Default setting for reference parts display are set to on.

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• With all the default setting, reference parts come into a drawing view

transparent.

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• With this option turned off all reference parts will come into the drawing view

solid.

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• User still has control over the display of reference parts by going into view

properties and selecting the Display tab and the Model options tab.

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Optional Not Display Drawing View Out-of-

date

• When drawing views are out-of-date and Draft file is opened, there is a dialog

displayed stating this. A check box on the dialog to 'Do not show this again."

• Out-of-date drawing views already have the gray box, corners, etc. to

indicate that they are Out-of-date.

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Table Text Margin Control

• Previously table cell text margins were controlled by a single value for both

horizontal/vertical margins.

• ST8 there’s now independent

control for both horizontal and

vertical.

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Free 2D Drafting license

• The free 2D drafting license is now a permanent license as of ST8 instead of

a timed license.

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Scaled Nailboards

• Previously in Nailboard drawings all views came in at a scale of 1 : 1.

• ST8 now has options to control view scale.






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• Where do I find lists of the default shortcut keys for each Solid Edge

environment?

Solid Edge Hints and Tips

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• Open a Part

• Customize the Command Ribbon

• Select the environment

• Select the keyboard tab

• Change "Choose commands from:"

to "All Keyboard Assignments"


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• Note that you can print out the keyboard assignments

for each environment


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• With the popular use of dual monitors while in the office, have you ever had a

"missing" dialog box when you working remote on your laptop just using a

single screen?

• The dialog is most likely being displayed on the second monitor.

• To fix this delete the following registry key to restore normal functionality:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Unigraphics Solutions\Solid Edge\Version

108\OpenAndSaveDisplaySettings


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• Do you know how to make cross-hatching look the same zoomed in as it looks

when zoomed to fit?

• Make the hatch not resize dynamically while zooming in


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• If you set Solid Edge Options > View tab >

Display as printed, then it won't change as

you zoom in and out


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• Force drawing views that are showing up-to-date to recompute by holding

down CTRL+SHIFT and clicking on Update Views

• In some special cases a change may not put drawing views out-of-date

and so simply clicking ‘Update Views’ would not recompute the

drawing view

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• When placing a dimension using the default Automatic option and the

dimension type is Horizontal/Vertical, you have the option to use the ‘Shift’ key

to switch the option to “by 2 points” before placing the dimension.

• When placing a dimension using the default Automatic option and the

dimension type is not an obvious Horizontal/Vertical, you have the option to

use the ‘Shift’ key to switch the option to “Horizontal/Vertical” before placing the

dimension.

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Summary

• Siemens Realise 2D Drafting is still the currency of The Drawing Office and

as such each release

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Questions?

Name Paul Abbott

Siemens Technical Consultant

Phone:

07989 549463

Email:

[email protected]

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