Adding Reference Dim. to Detail View

[deejaybos]

I have a cross section view of a cylindrical part. On the back is a diameter from "Show Annotations" and I have a detail view where I need to show this diameter as a reference. How do I pull this off in WF5.0 Creo Elements?

I can't even manually create this diameter because I don't have a second entity to select because the detail view is of part of the lower half.

Thanks!

 

[deejaybos]

Any help?

Maybe I did a poor job of describing the problem...

I have two views, and I need to show the dimension on one and the dimension on another (as a ref). The main view is a side view showing a diameter callout and the detail view is just a piece of that diameter portion and I need to show the dia as a ref. dimension.

 

[dr_gallup]

Create the ref dim in the parent view. Select the ref dim and right click, select "move to other view" in the pop up menu and select the detail view.

 

[deejaybos]

Can't move "created" dimensions though. I also have a similar situation on the same drawing where the dimension is shown on a detail view and then I need yet another detail view to show the reference diameter. Is there a way to create double arrow diameters?

 

[deejaybos]

A co-worker just gave me a perfect method, and I don't know why I, or anyone else didn't think of this or mention it before. If you know you're going to need a dimension as a reference in other views, just create the dimension multiple times within the model on that feature. The first one is the defining dimension, any additional is created as a reference. Then when you do Show Annotations for the model/feature, you can just show the reference dimension in as many views as you need (depending on how many times you re-create that same dimension).

 

[dr_gallup]

Can't move "created" dimensions though. I also have a similar situation on the same drawing where the dimension is shown on a detail view and then I need yet another detail view to show the reference diameter. Is there a way to create double arrow diameters?

Sure you can move created dimensions between views. It does need to be a view with the same orientation like a detail view and it's parent.

I've used the "create an extra reference dim in the section" trick too but I saw a post in a different forum that it no longer works in Creo2. Must have been too useful so PTC took it away.

 

[Volunteer]

I tried it the other day in Creo 2, it worked for me.