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Dimensioning Auto Features

AustinLee
Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to dimension an auto feature that reports the individual hits. I'm aware of the software's ability to make constructions based on determined points, but rather I'd like to use the more powerful auto features with more adjustment tools to manipulate the determined points more effectively.

The machinists at my shop prefer to see the individual hits for adjustments on my CAD-only-landscape reports. For example if you simply constructed a circle it takes an average of those points to dimension deviations from the theoretical. The machinist can then look at the report to see if they may have a shift or other issue. Although this is an issue when the runout of the circle is fluctuating and more often when its not a purely vertical or horizontal deviation.

To me it makes sense to report all of the measure points, and the constructed feature also. The auto feature is nice because it can call out a theoretical and actual measurement of a specification on a print, but doesn't always sufficiently communicate to the machinist how that feature actually looks and what adjustments need to be made.

Please share some advice on how you may resolve an issue like this and if its possible to report an auto feature like I described.

Thank you.
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  • turn on the graphical analysis
    also output profile of a surface/line (depending on the feature) and select the feature, then turn on graphical analysis

    If I understand what you want, one of those. I prefer the profile, it draws blue lines for the tolerance zone and puts arrows where your hits are in those zones, if I understand you want the machinist to see what his part looks like because he has form error you want him to correct.

    Just so they know the form, turn on the form output in whatever output you pick and let them see how out of form it is.

    Don't believe you can do all the hits at once, but as Ncog said, make the output for the cir1, then edit the code to .hit[1] and it will give you that hit.

    If it is a profile, you say .hits[1..cir1.numhits] to get them all regardless of number of hits, or pick numbers for the hits you want.
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  • turn on the graphical analysis
    also output profile of a surface/line (depending on the feature) and select the feature, then turn on graphical analysis

    If I understand what you want, one of those. I prefer the profile, it draws blue lines for the tolerance zone and puts arrows where your hits are in those zones, if I understand you want the machinist to see what his part looks like because he has form error you want him to correct.

    Just so they know the form, turn on the form output in whatever output you pick and let them see how out of form it is.

    Don't believe you can do all the hits at once, but as Ncog said, make the output for the cir1, then edit the code to .hit[1] and it will give you that hit.

    If it is a profile, you say .hits[1..cir1.numhits] to get them all regardless of number of hits, or pick numbers for the hits you want.
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