Customizing Preferences

You can customize preferences for 3D Tolerancing & Annotation.

  1. From the top bar, select Me > Preferences, and then click the App Preferences tab.
  2. Expand 3D Modeling, and then Mechanical Systems.
  3. Select 3D Tolerancing and Annotation.
  4. Expand the section corresponding to the options to be customized.

    Section Description
    Tolerancing Lets you configure tolerancing properties and behaviors specific to the app.
    Display Lets you customize default graphic properties.
    Constructed Geometry Lets you customize constructed geometry behaviors and properties.
    Handles Lets you customize handle behaviors.
    Dimension Lets you customize dimension behaviors and properties.
    Annotation Lets you customize annotation behavior at creation, extension line for geometrical tolerance, and 3D shape instances visibility at capture creation.
    Tolerances Lets you customize default tolerances at creation, for angular size, for chamfer size, for linear size and for geometrical tolerance.
    View/Annotation Plane Lets you customize associativity, display, behaviors of view/annotation plane.
    Administration Lets you configure default annotation style properties.

  5. Specify these options according to your needs.