Monday, November 10, 2008
Understanding Basics of Dimension Style Settings
Daily Autocad: "Probably AutoCAD users spent most of their time for dimensioning. Even though new innovations come in each version, dimensioning and its settings is still a difficult subject for users. In this article, I will talk about dimensioning settings in detail."
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I think its fascinating that draftsmen need to concentrate so much on how it is labeled and dimensioned. I guess I never really thought how important the styling of the sheet was and the subtle influences of a clean well organized page on the carpenters. I still think it is a little odd that many people use the handwritten-looking font on AutoCAD, to me it just feels like the "handwritten" look ruins the perfectly clean lines that AutoCAD can produce. Of course I'm always being told to use this font in AutoCAD, so I guess I'll have to wait and see how the fonts look printed before deciding on my own method of dimensioning.
This would have been kinda nice when I was first learning CAD. But now even at my level of incompetence I still know more about more of the functions of dimstyle than those explained in this article. I do wish I had this last year.
It is really important that a drawing is dimensioned clearly and correctly. It really aggravates me when I get a drawing which does not have the dimensions I need, or on which I can't tell what is being dimensioned, and then I have to go to the office and get clarification. If it was dimensioned right the first time, I could already be building the thing. Clarity and precision play a huge, not just subtle, role in the job of the carpenters.
I often fall into this trap when using programs for things I do all the time. I remember exactly how to set everything up, which numbers to type where, which button to click first, and which options I need to check should there be a problem but I find that often I need to look back at something unexpected and I have forgotten the purpose of that specific detail. I am so used to setting up my dimension styles in a certain way that when someone asks me to change it to fit their style or asks me why I set it up that way I forget. Articles like this that describe what each thing really does and how you can use it are helpful when you know what you need to input but you don't know why.
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