PR2091wants to display the degree symbol (°) on angular Dimensions even if "ShowUnits" preference is OFF.
Any opinions on this? Is this standard behaviour in other CAD prgrams? Would an angle without the (°) be mistaken for radians or grads?
[SOLVED] Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
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[SOLVED] Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
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Re: Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
Perhaps splitting the preferences is the best solution
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Re: Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
I am engeneer in furniture industry. All drawings we use are in milimeters. Same is with machinists. Architects use centimeters. We never use units of measure on drawings becouse they are cluttering detail. Also, we never mix dimensions in milimeters and centimeters on same drawing.
Only drawing application I saw so far, that shows UoM by default is Sketchup.
So what if we have situation like this ?
Is 45 angle or arc length?
Also, look at this presentation, slide 18, for lecture about practices in drawings. It applies to ISO and JIS.
https://www.slideshare.net/ThinkingYasi ... ng-drawing
According to ISO, DIN, and derivated standards, unit of measure on mechanical drawings are to be ommited. Angular dimensions are followed by "°" (degree) sign.
Only drawing application I saw so far, that shows UoM by default is Sketchup.
So what if we have situation like this ?
Is 45 angle or arc length?
Also, look at this presentation, slide 18, for lecture about practices in drawings. It applies to ISO and JIS.
https://www.slideshare.net/ThinkingYasi ... ng-drawing
According to ISO, DIN, and derivated standards, unit of measure on mechanical drawings are to be ommited. Angular dimensions are followed by "°" (degree) sign.
Re: Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
The 45 at the right is in degrees, the other is a horizontal length.
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Re: Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
I work in manufacturing (machined parts for semiconductor industry and aerospace) in the US, using imperial units. All drawings that I work with explicitly call out degrees for angular dimensions and that makes sense. In the example above, the dimensions that we think is angular could be construed as a chord length by someone else.
Re: Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
I second danielfalck, I have the same experience with drawings in imperial units. The linear dimension unit may be omitted, but angular dimensions always show the degree symbol.
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Re: [SOLVED] Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
Maybe 2 options.
- Show linear unit
- show angular unit
- Show linear unit
- show angular unit
Re: [SOLVED] Degree Symbol on Dimensions - PR2091 - Opinions?
I encountered this on version 0.18 with TechDraw, and found that one can use the following to 'fix' the issue: use the Format Spec and Arbitrary fields as follows:
Format Spec: allowing the default value (%.2f), it displays: "92.31°"
To display "92°", (desired angular measure PLUS the degree symbol!!) one must enter the desired value, then add the ASCII sequence to get the degree symbol, which is <alt>248. Then the "Arbitrary" value must be set to "true".
I'm really excited that this works, but in all due respect, it 'should be' an inherent function, no??
https://forum.freecadweb.org/download/f ... w&id=89562
in the image, there are three examples of using TechDraw's dimensioning:
a. 81.00°, this is the default (Format Spec value: %.2f, and Arbitrary set to 'false') and was fortunate that the 'picked points' resulted in 81.00°
b. 106.31°, this also is the result of defaults as in (a.), but it shows that the 'picked points' result is not what I want to show, which is "106.00°"
c. 92°(plus tolerance) this conveys the desired information. when using the 'picked points' and default, it would be 92.31°, but I want what it shows, and this was the result when I entered my desired result in FormatSpec, using ASCII <alt>248 to get the degree symbol, and Arbitrary is True.