{"id":2229,"date":"2014-09-17T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T09:50:48","slug":"dimxpert-and-copy-scheme-for-configurations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/dimxpert-and-copy-scheme-for-configurations\/","title":{"rendered":"DimXpert and Copy Scheme for Configurations"},"content":{"rendered":"

When designing models in SOLIDWORKS I often use configurations to create multiple derivations of a product.\u00a0 When defining configurations using GD&T it is beneficial to use a single annotation scheme across each configuration of the part.\u00a0 SOLDIWORKS DimXpert allows me to quickly do this without duplicating effort by copying an annotation scheme from one configuration to another.<\/p>\n

In this case I used the DimXpert copy scheme tool to annotate this robot hand.\u00a0 When I modeled this robot hand I had both a heavy-duty and a light-weight application in mind so I created two configurations to match my needs.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/a>\"Light<\/a><\/p>\n

When annotating the configurations of the model I wanted to use the same dimensioning scheme, just with different values.\u00a0 To begin, I used DimXpert to dimension one instance of a gripper pad.<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a><\/p>\n

To carry the annotations from the light-weight configuration of the gripper pad to the heavy-duty version, I used the \u201ccopy scheme\u201d tool located in the DimXpert manager.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/a><\/p>\n

The DimXpert copy scheme tool allows you to type a name for your new annotation scheme which will be displayed at the top of the annotations tree in the DimXpert manager.\u00a0 In the tool you may also write a description and comments for the scheme which will be displayed in its properties.\u00a0 To complete the copy scheme, you must also choose the source configuration.\u00a0 In this case I selected the scheme from the light-weight configuration.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/a><\/p>\n

After selecting ok, the annotation scheme is copied from the source configuration to the new configuration. Note that although the dimension locations, types and styles are copies, the values update to stay relevant to the new configuration.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally posted by Tyler Smith in the SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DoubleRedArrow\"<\/a>\u00a0Find out more on SOLIDWORKS<\/span><\/a>
\n\"DoubleRedArrow\"<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Contact Sales<\/span><\/a>
\n\"DoubleRedArrow\"<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Request a Demo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"REP_3Dfor2DBuildingAssemblies_600x90_SAL\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When designing models in SOLIDWORKS I often use configurations to create multiple derivations of a product.\u00a0 When defining configurations using GD&T it is beneficial to use a single annotation scheme… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,23,25,26],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-solidworks-2","tag-support"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}