Green1 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 I'm trying to draw a detail of a exposed truss steel plate connection. What settings do I use to draw centers of drilled holes circles to polyline or steel plate edges? I'm tying to send plan and can't figure that out either? Thanks Steel Plate Detail.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Quote What settings do I use to draw centers of drilled holes circles to polyline or steel plate edges? Are you trying to display the center point or create a dimension to it? You can turn on the display of arc centers in the CAD detail using View>Arc Centers and Ends. You can also draw a Point Marker located at the center point which would give more control over the display. As Eric has pointed out, you should be able to dimension to the center of a circle or arc. If you are displaying arc centers, this is much easier. If you are not, then the program will probably not pick up the center by default and you will have to drag the end of the dimension to the center point. Quote I'm tying to send plan and can't figure that out either? Send it to another user or post it here on the forum? To send the plan to another user, I would recommend that you use the Backup Entire Plan tool. If you are trying to post it on this forum, I would recommend that you remove unnecessary data from the plan first and then put it into a zip folder to take up less space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green1 Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 Yes. Won't work for me. I can't get dimension to find center and it jumps around instead of going to polyline edge. I'm sure I have set something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green1 Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 Ok. I found centers. But, what do I have set to make dimensions perpendicular to poly line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green1 Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 Steel plate dimensions.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermot Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Another thing you can try is to use the Make Parallel tool on the dimension line to make it perpendicular to the line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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