About Chamfer Dimensions

You can create chamfer dimensions. However, you should be familiar with some concepts that are described in this section before you begin creating chamfer dimensions.

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Creating Chamfer Dimensions
  • In a Drawings context, you can create chamfer dimensions for the following types of cylindrical shapes: cylinder/cone/cylinder, plane/cone/cone, plane/cone/cylinder, plane/plane/plane.

  • When creating chamfer dimension on cylindrical shapes in a Drawings context, remember that:
    • in the case of projection views, the projection plane needs to be parallel to the cylinder axis.
    • in the case of section views or section cuts, the section plane needs to be parallel to, and to go through, the cylinder axis.
    • the sketched profile on which the cylinder (or the cone) is based must be a circle.
  • All options defined in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting (Dimensions and Handles tabs) are taken into account when creating chamfer dimensions.
  • When editing chamfer dimension text properties (right-click and selectProperties >Dimension Texts tab), any information (for example associated text, fake dimension, tolerance, text before/after, etc.) added to the main value, will actually be positioned according to the first value (excluding the "x" symbol, for example "19,1").

    This information will be positioned in the following order: Text Before/Prefix/first value/Tolerance/Suffix/Text After/second value (including the "x" symbol, for example "x 20,37"). An example is provided below, with a Text After.

  • When re-routing chamfer dimensions which have only two reference elements (the element to be dimensioned and a single reference line or surface), you will need to select three reference elements.