I'm hoping someone help me out here. I'm getting out of the ballpark numbers when I dimension a line parallel to another line. I realize that PCDMIS will check parallelism in 3D regardless of workplane, but the lines are projected to the same plane. When I check parallel to work plane it is correct. Don't have this issue with CMM.
DIM PARL8= PARALLELISM OF LINE LIN4,RFS TO LINE -A-,RFS EXTENDLENGTH=672.0000 UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=500.00 OUTPUT=REPORT
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
M 0.0000 0.0050 0.0000 2.1320 2.1320 2.1270 -------->
DIM ANGL1= 2D ANGLE FROM LINE LIN4 TO LINE -A- ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=500.00 OUTPUT=REPORT
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
A 0.0000 0.1000 -0.1000 -0.0098 -0.0098 0.0000 ----#----
WORKPLANE/XPLUS
DIM PARL1= PARALLELISM OF LINE LIN4,RFS TO WORKPLANE XPLUS EXTENDLENGTH=672.0000 UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=500.00 OUTPUT=REPORT
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
M 0.0000 0.0050 0.0000 0.1147 0.1147 0.1097 -------->