From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Using ordinate dimensions - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Using ordinate dimensions
- [Narrator] Ordinate dimensions are used primarily in sheet metal because there are so many items normally in sheet metal parts that makes it really hard to use base line dimensions, or any other dimensioning technique. So, ordinate dimensions really help out here. So to add in an ordinate dimension it's pretty straightforward, go over here to annotations, smart dimension and click on the little drop down here and click on horizontal ordinate dimensions. Now I need to choose where my starting point is, where my base line of of that dimension. I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in here and choose this very first edge here and then drag that down to where that zero is, down below my part. Now I've started the ordinate dimension, now anything I click on will be added to this dimension. So I'm gonna go ahead and choose this hole, about the edge of this slot, the other edge. I could come down here, this lines up so I don't need another dimension there. Up at the top of that arc, same thing over…
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