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Dimension property manager

Dimension property manager - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Dimension property manager

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- Once you've created a dimension inside of a SolidWorks drawing using either Smart Dimension or one of the other dimension annotation tools, you might want to edit it, change the way it looks or maybe add some other information that might be helpful for manufacturers. So to bring up the dimension property manager you simply click on any dimension and the property manager over on the left will update to show you all of the dimensions properties. Now, starting on the first tab for value we have the tolerance and precision options which we're going to look at in another video. Then moving down, we have the primary value. This actually gives us the information about where this dimension is coming from. This is drawing view one, and this is RD2, that's just the dimensions call out in this location and it has a specific value. If for some reason and I don't suggest this, you wanted to override what that value was, maybe you're…

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