Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tech Tip: Dimensioning to an arc-shaped cut of a cylinder

A warning may appear when trying to add a dimension in the drawing to an arc-shaped cut of a cylinder.

The feature was made by extruding a cut with the following sketch.
Procedure: One way to dimension the drawing is to expand the drawing view in the feature manager and show the sketch. A dimension can be added to the sketch entities and afterwards the sketch can be hidden.

Notes:
Another solution is to create a section view. The section view can be dimensioned without a warning.


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