{"id":1505,"date":"2013-11-08T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T11:32:04","slug":"new-in-solidworks-2014-text-from-above-and-below-the-dimension-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/new-in-solidworks-2014-text-from-above-and-below-the-dimension-line\/","title":{"rendered":"New in SolidWorks 2014: Text from above and below the dimension line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New functionality for dimensions on drawings is available in SolidWorks 2014 for ISO and related standards. \u00a0It is now possible to place dimension text above and below a solid dimension line.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-7-2013-10-21-24-PM-615x325.gif\" alt=\"Text above and below\" width=\"492\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-7-2013-10-25-43-PM.gif\" alt=\"Even on Radii\" width=\"333\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new capability is available for linear, diameter and radius dimensions set to \u201cSolid Leader, Aligned Text\u201d on the dimension\u2019s PropertyManager under the <em>Leader<\/em> tab within the <em>Custom Text Position<\/em> group box, regardless to the selected Drafting Standard for the drawing.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-7-2013-10-23-33-PM.gif\" alt=\"Solid Leader, Aligned Text\" width=\"185\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-7-2013-10-35-29-PM.gif\" alt=\"Dimension Text group box\" width=\"134\" height=\"253\" \/>Of course, this setting can also be set as the<br \/>\ndocument default at <em>Tools<\/em>&gt;<em>Options\u2026<\/em>&gt;<em>Document <\/em><i><em>Properties<\/em><\/i>&gt;<em>Dimensions<\/em> under <em>Linear<\/em>, <em>Diameter<\/em> and <em>Radius<\/em> pages in the <em>Text Position<\/em> area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When \u201cSolid Leader, Aligned Text\u201d is set, a second text entry field appears within the Dimension Text group box. \u00a0Text entered into this field will appear under the solid dimension line. \u00a0Parenthesis and Inspection outline may be applied to the top and bottom independently from each other.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>Text justification (left, center and right) apply to both the top and bottom at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Dual dimensioning is also supported! \u00a0When a dimension is set to Dual Dimension using the Dual Dimension group box (checked), a new setting is available simply called \u201cSplit\u201d. \u00a0When <em>Split<\/em> is checked, the secondary unit will appear other side of the dimension line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/11-7-2013-10-49-43-PM-615x121.gif\" alt=\"Splitting the dual dimension\" width=\"554\" height=\"109\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Posted by Matthew West in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/11\/new-in-solidworks-2014-text-from-above-and-below-theno-dimension-line.html\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/index.php\/products\/solidworks-2014-whats-new\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/REP_Launch2014_DesignWithoutLimits_600x90.jpg\" alt=\"REP_Launch2014_DesignWithoutLimits_600x90\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New functionality for dimensions on drawings is available in SolidWorks 2014 for ISO and related standards. \u00a0It is now possible to place dimension text above and below a solid dimension&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,25,68],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-67","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-2014"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}