četvrtak, 27. veljače 2014.

Dimension tolerance - ISO style

Everyday we're facing the powers of Catia software. Although I was suprised that such a software doesn't have default tolerance style which is mostly used - the solution for that was quick and let me say: optional :-)

Default drafting standard styles look like this:

And what I want is this style:

In order to set this kind of tolerance style, there are few modifications to apply.
  1. Run Catia as Administrator, then go to Tools/Standards....
  2. Choose drafting from Category and select your style which you want to modify (ex. ANSI.xml or ISO.xml or any other)
  3. Expand your *.xml file and select Tolerance Formats in tree
  4. Click Add instance (new tolerance format will be added)
  5. Select new instance and change the parameters like this:

6. Click OK and your *.xml will be saved. Then exit Catia, run again, create new part, create new drawing with standard you modified and create a dimension with new tolerance format you defined. And that should do it :-)

Here is info on  few valuable parameters regarding this format:
TolIntY - vertical space between min and max value
TolExtX - horizontal position of tolerance values regarding to main value
TolExtY - vertical position of tolerance values regarding to main value
TolScale - scale of tolerance font size from main value font size