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This should be easy: just click on the dimension, right -click on Properties, and select the 'Dimension Text' tab. Click after the '@D', then select the 'Text Symbol' button, select the plus/minus sign, then type in your tolerance. This works for bilateral tolerances. Use the fieldsunder the Properties tab for other tolerance schemes.
This should be easy: just click on the dimension, right -click on Properties, and select the 'Dimension Text' tab. Click after the '@D', then select the 'Text Symbol' button, select the plus/minus sign, then type in your tolerance. This works for bilateral tolerances. Use the fieldsunder the Properties tab for other tolerance schemes.
Bilateral seems to display an upper and a lower value if you use it: it doesn't use the plus/minus symbol. This does seem odd. Perhap I have to set yet another config.pro option, as skraba is suggesting above.
have you considered investing in a class or a few books to get the set up of your pro-e out of the way? it seems you have alot of issues with the details and we all know you would prefer another software. Perhaps you have already done that, but it just seems you only want to use SW instead of learning how pro-e works. Some people have no software option, so this forum is a great way to learn. Perhaps some of your frustration is just the setup you have.
After setting the config option tol_display yes you can choose between limits (which is what you are seeing without the plus/minus), plus/minus, & symmetric.
You also need to set a default, yours is currently limits. This is done in the config.pro option tol_mode.
BTW, your continued bashing of ProE is tiring, please stop.
Dear ProE masters, I have an weird problem: I set config.pro tol_mode nominal, tol_display yes, in the .dtl file tolerance_display yes. When I apply show/erase window to the part dimensions, all show in limits tolerance mode.
The dimensions show up in the mode that was active when the dimension was CREATED. Changing tol_mode to a new value is not retroactive. Just think how pissed off you would be if it was! If you want to change many or all the dimensions in a part at once just select them in a drawing and RMB properties.
Sorry about that: plus/minus works. I was just following the advice of a person here who has been using WF for years: they are still doing it the other way (typing it in). I don't suppose it makes much difference though .... and I did have tol_display set to yes in config.pro. Perhaps it's just the semantics used in Pro/E: symmetric sounds like what they call plus-minus to me. And don't get me started on 'locked' dimensions, which actually aren't 'locked' at all - but I have learned to love this new feature in sketcher. Oddly, 'locked' dimensions were never mentioned in any of the numerousPTCU tutorials I have taken in recent months.
Mindripper wrote:
...they are still doing it the other way (typing it in). I don't suppose it makes much difference though ....
The difference is that also the model gets that tolerance, not only the drawing. There is a function to set the model to middle tolerance even if the tolerance is asymetric.
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