Newbie - DRafting on Mastercam X5

[Armand Palacio]

Hi, my teacher gave me some drawings to duplicate and practice at home and one thing that is giving some troubles right now is when there are decimal places involve like for example a 24.95mm circle. When I use the circular dimension to illustrate it becomes 25mm. When I analyse the entity properties of that circle it is still 24.95mm. Is it normal that it will do an automatic round off ? or do I need to do some tweaking on the "drafting option" to fix the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

[NOTW Programmer]

As you dimension you can type T and the dimension settings come up, on the left you can click on the dimension settings and adjust the resolution of your measurement to 2 places instead of 1 that you probably have right now.

[Armand Palacio]

As you dimension you can type T and the dimension settings come up, on the left you can click on the dimension settings and adjust the resolution of your measurement to 2 places instead of 1 that you probably have right now.

 

I have adjusted the decimal places to 2 or even 3 at the dimension attributes, but still I get the same results. It is still rounding off to the nearest ones :-(

[ajmer]

Are you using the Home Learning Edition?

[Armand Palacio]

Are you using the Home Learning Edition?

Yes

[ajmer]

Some of the drafting accuracy is taken out of the Home Learning Edition.

[Armand Palacio]

Some of the drafting accuracy is taken out of the Home Learning Edition.

 

:( :o

[Dan_AKA_ROY]

X5 HLE

 

- Can't post NC code.

- Dimensioning limited.

- Will time out in 6 months (you just need to re-download it again)

- Oh, you can't access C-Hooks, either.

 

You could... Click on the dimension and go to Analyze Entities Properties (the ? icon...upper right toolbar icon). Then click Edit Text (123 icon)..From there change the value to what you want. Its sort of cheating. Dimension values don't HAVE TO equal the actual values.

[kh012]

^^1

 

I use the drafting shortcut keys all the time.

j=opens text k=lock dim.orientation n=ajust or stretch leader s=opens parameters

just a few of the keys i found usefull.

Ken,