Something about dimensioning I just noticed

[jeff]

After 20 yrs of using Mastercam, I just stumbled across this while dimensioning a .dwg that I brought in.

 

It's not drawn to scale and it's in metric, so I usually check a Horizontal dimension and Vertical dimension to see if it's proportionate.

While doing this, I created a dimension, then accidentally clicked on an existing Autocad Font dimension and my font changed to match theirs. Cool!

 

BUT, this is where i got confused, it also changed the scale factor to match the part of 1:1.33 (didn't change the part size) so this can actually be disastrous if you don't realize this.

 

Another thing, is that since I've now re-scaled it to proper size, I dimension a line and it's 4.7244, if I click on one of their dimensions it changes to 120mm. THAT right there will save me so much damn time it's unreal.

[JoshC]

I believe they improved upon this functionality in 2017, however to enable the option to match existing dim's in 2017 you must hold down the ~ key on the keyboard then select the dim that you want to match

[Thad]

 

Another thing, is that since I've now re-scaled it to proper size, I dimension a line and it's 4.7244, if I click on one of their dimensions it changes to 12mm. THAT right there will save me so much damn time it's unreal.

 

Hopefully it's just a typo and not some type of conversion issue because 4.7244 is 120mm, not 12.

[jeff]

Hopefully it's just a typo and not some type of conversion issue because 4.7244 is 120mm, not 12.

LOL yes that's a typo, I realized that after I posted it, but forgot to fix that.