Creating Thickness Dimensions for Curved Surfaces

You can create thickness dimensions for curved surfaces.

This helps show the relationships between surfaces. You can apply thickness dimensions to:
  • Cylinders
  • Bosses
  • Simple holes
You can create thickness dimensions between two concentric DimXpert features for:
  • An inside and outside diameter, where the inside diameter is a cylinder or simple hole, and the outside diameter is a cylinder or boss.
  • Two inside diameters of a cylinder or simple hole.
  • Two outside diameters of a cylinder or boss. For example:

To create thickness dimensions for curved surfaces:
  1. In a part, click Location Dimension (MBD Dimension toolbar).
    Steps 2 and 3 require that you select two features. For thickness dimensions, the two features must be cylindrical, concentric, and have different diameters. You can use DimXpert basic location dimensions.
  2. Select the surface of the origin feature.
  3. Select the face of the tolerance feature.
  4. Click to place the dimension.
  5. Specify options in the PropertyManager and click .