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Dimension Style Settings 7: Another tolerance dimensioning.

1 Comment Jan-23-2007 | Posted by Orhan Toker | Printable Version | Level |

Hello,

We have already seen tolerance dimensioning in “Dimensioning IV” article written by Murat Saraldı. I feel like I hear you saying “this is not like what we learn at school!”. When we enter tolerance tab from dimension style settings, you will see that tolerances that we have learned can also be set from there.

Fig. 1 Assigning symmetrical tolerance values.

To achieve this, you must select the format you like from the “Tolerance Format” pull-down menu from TOLARENCES tab in dimension style settings (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 We can make tolerance assigning, which we are used to, from basic tolerance settings.

By using the first option, which is “Symmetrical”, you can get the tolerance format as shown in Fig. 1. By using the other settings, you can change values like decimal digits after dot (precision), upper and lower values and text height scale (scaling for height).

Below, you can find examples for tolerance formats.

Fig. 3 Tolerance by using deviation method.

Fig. 4 Showing tolerances by using upper and lower limits.

Fig. 5 Basic tolerance (You should put tolerance beside it by yourself).

Have a nice day…