Dimensioned drawings from solid model

[67 Yankee]

Seems like I read something recently about making dimensioned drawings from solids in Mastercam, but I can't find it now. I don't make dimensioned drawings often, and even less often from solids but I have had to do it a few times. What I have done is create curves on all edges, orient the wireframes to the view I want, then project to plane, delete the elements I don't want to see, dimension what's left, and repeat for the other views. There's a better way than this, right?

 

Thanks for any help

[Hardmill]

Use solids layout

 

 

PEACE

[67 Yankee]

Outstanding. Thanks a ton!

[Slydman]

Just a tips, if you need to make a straight section view from your solid.

 

Using straight section option will give you the same result as projection of a line onto the solid.

 

What i usually do is a solid/trim (where i want the section done), then from that new solid i create the layout the result is very good

[67 Yankee]

I've been playing with this for a while now and it's better than I had hoped for or even imagined. I don't need to do this very often, but it will be a pleasure to do it now this way.

 

Thanks much for the tips.

[Hardmill]

 

 

PEACE

[Slydman]

you're welcome