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Creating an Equidistant WorkPlane in Inventor
If you need to create a work plane equidistant between
two parallel surfaces, it is pretty easy to do.
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Select the work plane tool.
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Select one face.
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Select the parallel face.
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A work plane will be placed equidistance between the
two selected faces.
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Loyal Readers Check In
Priscilla Mills caught an error (just one!?) in last week's
CADzette.
The tip on how to enter a bearing was incomplete...
The syntax is:
@123.45
Bearing was not in your example.
From Tommy Holder:
Just wanted to share a bit. PrintScreen.Lsp will allow
you to print what is on your screen to the Default
System printer.
If you use the zoom option, the corners define a
window selection in the -plot command. If no zoom
what you see is what you get.
It works well with paper sizes listed. Uses letter, legal,
11x17 paper sizes. Others could be added.
Down and dirty but better than nothing I always say.
Just wanted to say thanks for your help in the
CADzette.
Hans-Peter Sauer wanted to know why he couldn't read
the pdf files on my website. Another reminder that you
need to download and install the latest version of
Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open and read the
pdfs on my website.
Priscilla wanted to know if I will be at Autodesk's
Millbrae event where Lynn Allen will be showing us how
fantastic Autodesk 2005 is. Yes, I will be there and I
will be bringing a box of my texts with me to give
away. Come up to me and say the magic
word "CADzette" and you can have your choice of a
Revit, Inventor or ADT text....FREE.
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Add the Tools Menu to Your ADT Menu Headers
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Type Menuload at the command line.
- Highlight Tools in the AutoCAD menu group and
insert.
- Close the menuload dialog.
You now have the Tools menu added.
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Changing the Data Format of Space Tags in ADT
You may have noticed that the space tag displays the
area with decimal spaces. To modify the way data is
displayed in your schedule tag:
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In the menu, go to Documentation->Scheduling->Data
Format Styles.
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Highlight Area. Right click and select 'Edit'.
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Select the Formatting tab.You can control how whether
or not your area has a prefix or suffix (Note that the
default suffix is 'SF'.)You can set the precision on the
right of the dialog box.You can select a dimension style
by pressing the 'Set from Dimension Style' button.
Be sure to select the 'Apply' button to have the
precision change affect your space tag. Press Apply
and
OK to close the dialog.
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Go to Format->Multi-View Block->Multi-View Block
Update to update the blocks.
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