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This document provides 20 guidelines for properly dimensioning drawings in SolidWorks, including ensuring dimensions show the design intent, placing them in views where they are clearly visible, avoiding overlapping or crossing dimension lines, and using detail or section views for small or hidden features rather than dimensioning directly to them. Dimensions should have values centered on the line and spaced appropriately from other text and features on the drawing.

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Comments On Dimensions

This document provides 20 guidelines for properly dimensioning drawings in SolidWorks, including ensuring dimensions show the design intent, placing them in views where they are clearly visible, avoiding overlapping or crossing dimension lines, and using detail or section views for small or hidden features rather than dimensioning directly to them. Dimensions should have values centered on the line and spaced appropriately from other text and features on the drawing.

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CommentsonDimensions

1. Theremustbeenoughdimensionstobuildthepartusingonly
thedrawings!!!
2. Dimensionsmustshowthedesignintent(locatesomeitems
relativetoothers,showsizesofsomefeatures).
3. SolidWorkscaninsertanydimensionrequested.Thedimension
willalwayshavethecorrectvalue,BUTmaynotconveythe
designintent,asrequired.
4. Dimensionsgoinaviewthatbestshowsthemintrueshape
(almostalways).
5. Dimensionvaluesshouldbeatthecenterofthedimensionline,
unlesstheywillnotfit.
6. Dimensionnumbersshouldbeonefontheightawayfromthe
partandawayfromeachother.
7. Radiiordiametersshouldnotbegivenhorizontalorvertical
leaders.
8. Leaderlinesshouldnotcrosseachotheroranumberortext.
9. Scalethefontsizetolookgoodrelativetothepartsize.
10. Scalethearrowheadstothefontsize(OptionsDocument
PropertiesDimensions).
11. Avoidplacingdimensionsonthebodyofthepart.
12. Giveanydimensiononlyonce!
13. Donotdimensiontohiddenlinesorfilletedges.Showhidden
linesinthreestandardviews.
14. Arrowheadsgoinsidetheleadersexceptiftheyoverlap.
15. Chainingdimensionsshouldlineupattheirarrowheads.
16. Dimensionrelativelysmallfeaturesinadetailvieworasection
view.
17. Filletsandthreadsareusuallybestdescribedwithdrawing
notes.
18. Createauxiliaryviewsforinclinedplaneswithtrueshapecircles,
ellipsesorarcs.
19. Createsectionviewsfortrueshapefeaturesthatarehiddenin
thefront,toporrightviews.
20. SeedimensioninglinksontheclassHelpFilespageandinthe
classschedule.(www.clear.rice.edu/mech403)

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