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The following procedure shows you how to dimension paper space objects (at the proper scale) when they are drawn on top of a 3D Drawing view object. To accomplish this task, you create a dimension style with the appropriate scale setting in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

When manually placing dimensions and then updating the drawing, the software remembers dimensions placed between objects within a single drawing view, dimensions placed from paper space to paper space, and dimensions placed between paper space graphics and model objects.

Dimension styles must be defined for paper space objects and their scale factors, otherwise the paper space dimensions will be deleted when the drawing is updated. SmartSketch Drawing Editor will not recognize any possible errors in the dimension style, so be sure that any new dimension styles are correct before updating a drawing. See Edit dimension styles and Manual dimensioning.

  1. Start the SmartSketch Drawing Editor. Double-click shape2dserver.exe in the [Product Folder]\Common2D\Shape2D\Bin folder.

  2. Use File > Open to open the styles.sha file. This file is located in your [Product Folder]\Common2D\Shape2D\Template\Styles folder.

    The styles.sha file is delivered as a read-only file. You can change the properties of the file, or you can copy the file to a new name and use the copied file to create your new dimensioning style.

  3. Select Format > Style, and on the Style dialog, click New.

  4. On the New Dimension Style dialog, give the new paper space dimension a name.

  5. Go to the General tab, and set the scale mode to Manual and set a manual value for the dimensioning. For example, for a scale of 1:100mm, you would set the manual value to 0.01.

When you apply this updated style.sha to your drawings, you can use the new paper space dimension style when placing paper space objects, even when positioned on top of drawing view objects.

Upon resizing a drawing, all automatic dimensions change accordingly, but manual dimensions will not relocate. Manual dimensions between paper space objects and model objects will still exist, but their values will change.

Dimensioning from model objects in one view to model objects in a different view is not supported.