radius & Dia Dims & Dual demensioning

[Heather]

Normally in my drawings I use just the primary dimensions (set as fractions) however sometimes in the same drawing I use the secondary dim for a decimal dimension... This used to work not bad (except for the blasted brackets I always have to delete) Tollerencing the secondary dimension is a pain but possible.

In VW 9.5 when I chage a raduis or dia dimension to "dual" I can not turn off the primary dim or get to the seconday dim to delete the brackets.

Is there something I can do to make it work again?

Thanks, Heather

[Guest]

Looks like a bug to me ... i'll add it to the bug list.

Does anyone else want an option for no automatic brackets on dual dims?

[TiTaNiuM sAMuRai]

I don't see it being tough to put in, so yes.

[Guest]

Whether or not it is tough isn't an issue for me (but it's often very difficult from the outside to tell how difficult something is on the inside) - i'm more concerned about adding complexity. We need compelling reasons to add anything that we add. To be compelling, it must be something lots of users would want, or a few users very much need. And it has to be more important than other things that users want since there's a finite amount of work we can do an any given release.

So: is turning off brackets something you personally would want to do, or some known dim standards would require?

[TiTaNiuM sAMuRai]

If Engineering people need it, but Architectural and others don't, would it be something that could be implemented in one of the Industry modules?

[Guest]

No - this is core functionality that would affect all versions. But our built-in dimension standards would probably not change, it would just let you change a custom standard to not have the brackets.

[ 02-07-2002: Message edited by: jodawi ]