Dimensions

All dimensions that are drawn automatically by Parabuild are regular AutoCAD dimensions.

You can change these dimensions and draw new ones using the AutoCAD commands.

In some cases the AutoCAD tools are impracticable.

Especially for drawing chain dimensions, ordinate dimensions and oblique dimensions the AutoCAD tools are slow in usage.

That is why some commands were added to Parabuild to intercept these shortcomings.

These commands will however draw AutoCAD dimensions, so you can still use the properties and dimension styles of AutoCAD on these dimensions.

With this command you draw a new chain dimension.

This command works almost exactly the same as the Linear dimension command of AutoCAD.

• (Optional) If you want to draw an oblique dimension, then you need to press <Enter> right after starting the command.
  Then you will get the opportunity to select a line that will be used to align the dimension to (A on the illustration).
• Then you have to give the two extension points, points B and C on the illustration.
• Finally you have to give the distance between extension points and dimension line, point D on the illustration.
• (Optional) Then you can still expand the chain dimension with additional extension points (point E on the illustration).

You can convert this chain dimension into an ordinate dimension using the command Dimension settings ().

With this command you can additional extension points to an existing chain or ordinate dimension.

With this command you can remove an extension line from a chain or ordinate dimension.

With this command you can change the origin points of an ordinate dimension.

With this command you can let Parabuild search for chain dimensions in the 2D sheet. If it finds dimensions that form a chain dimension but they are not merged, then it will merge these dimension to one chain dimension.

Merged chain dimensions can be converted at once into an ordinate dimension.

With this command you can manually merge dimensions into a chain dimension.

With this command you can manually disconnect a range of dimensions.

With this command you can convert a chain dimension into an ordinate dimension and vice versa. This command is also accessible by right-clicking a dimension.