Tolerance on manually added dimension

[kerklein2]

Using Wildfire 2.0 here.

I've got a manually typed in dimension on a drawing. There is a hole dimension, and then I've typed in the counterbore diameter and depth myself. My question is, how can I add a tolerance to this depth? I know there is the plus/minus symbol, but I'm trying to do a one-sided tolerance.

 

[kdem]

Add @+tolerance@# and @-tolerance@# to the dimension text. This creates superscripted and subscripted text. Tolerance is in the form +.001, -.000, etc depending on what tolerances you want.

 

[kerklein2]

Great!!

Anyway to make the tall brackets for the dual dimension?

 

[kdem]

You will have to play around with it to see what you get but you can copy characters into the note using the charater map. The symbol font has some characters that split the brackets up into pieces. You can try those to see if that will work for you.

 

[red-arete]

If you notice in your text on the page you can edit the font & size of each 'gorup' of text individually i.e. the '+.001'
So you can put in a '(' as a group and treat it in the same way.

Simply put the '(' on it's own line to start with, then resize it and then line everything up again.

(Does WF2 still have the '{ }' around each text group?)

Have fun, there are loads of features like this that seem to have slipped out of training manuels and become legend & folklore!

Ian.