I have a complicated, swiss cheese area on an aluminum housing and would like to show a blown up view of that area with the dimensions coming from 0,0. Any way to make that happen in Solidworks? PRO/E it was dimension in the parent view, right click move to detail view. Time consuming but it at least would work. Ctrl+shift does not move dimensions from view to view for me.
The only way I can get it to work is to modify the sketch of your detail view to include 0,0 temporarily, add the ordinate dimensions that you want to the detail view, then edit the sketch of the detail view border back to the way you want it. The ordinate dimensions remain and are still attached to the zero.
Hello John,
Were you thinking about using Hole Table functionality in SOLIDWORKS, which will let you position your critical datum, (0,0) and have the positioning of all your holes be mapped out based on the (0,0) location.
Give it a try, hopefully it works for you,
Alen
^^^ What they said. While I normally prefer ordinate dimensions, I think with the shear volume of holes here the hole table is your best option. Of course if your shop guys need trained to read the table....
I agree that a hole table is the way to go, but I'll need to train the shop guys (China) that different is not bad...
Hole tables are your friend with this type of part.
Just adding to the chorus....
Now to get it to fit...
I know, I'll clean the table up to fit on one sheet, and the "view" on the next page. Even more training...
You can split the table automatically. If you right click on it, there is a split functionality (don't have SW up right now), but it will basically make two or 3 or 4 tables out of 1.
Might be a backward way of doing it - here is what I would do - Make different zones and use multiple views dimensioning off the noted Zones or Lines - I know our shop would have major issues with this...
Hmmm. Interesting idea. I'm not sure I clearly understand how you'd set up the zones. Do you have a picture you could provide? Here's where I'm at and I'm concerned my shop will have issues.
Another alternative is to simply copy/paste the existing view, increase the scale and then crop it to show just the portion you want.
Jim,
This was my original plan, but I could not figure out how to get the dimensions to pull from my 0,0 ordinate position. The drawing gets real messy, real quick because of the various holes being off by just mils. I have a PCB that has the ground plane, along with voltage and test points at various vias.
You can dimension everything in the first view, copy it, and then delete any dimensions that aren't relevant in each view. Or, you can dimension the detail view separately before cropping it. In both cases you then hide the 0 ordinate after cropping.
John - I just did a quick mock up - and it may not be what you want, but you would need multiple drawing sheets, personally I would do one zone per sheet, blow it up so that the dimensions don't overcrowd the hole details etc. - however I know what I would have to deal with here, especially if the shop guys aren't used to it.
Now if you think you'll have more of this type of work then it might be good to get the guys trained for Hole Tables....
You can add ordinate dimensions from 0,0 to detailed views. (no extra 0,0 needed)
I would use a hole chart as well but try this. What if your cropped view included the origin point of your ordinate dimension and you showed the dimensions there and then re-cropped the view to not include the origin point, would that work?
Steve C
I would skip the whole idea of dimension so many holes here. Will the workshop be happy with such a high risc in making reading errors and so on? I would send a step file or even better a SW part file to the CNC program and import it there.
