From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
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Using ordinate dimensions - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
Using ordinate dimensions
Ordinate dimensions are used a lot in sheet metal. Primarily because there's so many items on most sheet metal parts, and it's hard to detail using other dimensioning techniques. To use other dimensions, we first need to select a starting point where our ordinate dimensions are going to be coming from. In this case here, let's go over here to Annotation, click on the drop down under Smart Dimension. And let's go ahead and grab either Ordinate dimension, Horizontal or Vertical Ordinate Dimension. Let's start off with horizontal. In this case here, I want to use this edge here as my starting point for my ordinate. Go ahead and click on that, and then it applies a little zero mark to your cursor. (INAUDIBLE) You can move that up and down. Find a place that you'd like to place it and click OK. Now, this is in ordinate dimensioning mode, and anything that I click on is going to add an ordinate dimension. So, for instance, I have a couple holes right. I'll pick the upper one, so, I have…
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