Tilde in front of dimension

[Volunteer]

I have searched the forum for this and can't find anything. I am making some sheet metal drawings, when I show a dimension and change it from decimal to fractional a tilde shows up in front of the dimension. Anyone have any idea what is going on?

 

[Volunteer]

OK I figured it out. I was off .001 on the dimension, and I guess it couldn't convert it to a fraction without it being "off". I changed the dimension by subtracting .001 and the tilde went away.

 

[krow72]

I believe from past experience that the tilde means "about" or "close to" but not the exact number.

 

[contour]

In config.pro set "mark_approximate_dims"to "no"


(See [url]http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35 554[/url])

 

[Volunteer]

Thanks contour, that helps a bunch....don't know why I didn't see that when I did a search for tilde.