Automatic Ordinate Dimensioning

Adaucogit Salt not only supplies automatic linear dimensioning for AutoCAD software but also ordinate dimensioning.
There are two types of Salt automatic ordinate dimensioning. One is “Peripheral” and the other is “Near”. In “Peripheral” type, dimensions are laid outside of all objects, and in “Near” type, dimensions are laid near objects. The operations of both are similar to using the linear dimensioning.

1. Run the automatic dimensioning function, and in the dialogue box, there are two options regarding ordinate dimensioning. At first, we choose type “Peripheral” for an example.

2. Select objects.

3. Specify the base point. (If press Enter key to ignore, the program will specify the left-bottom corner as a base point and next step - step 4 - will be passed.)

4. Specify a base line or press Enter key to ignore.

5. Specify the text scale. In this case, we press Enter key directly to accept the default value which is applied by the program.

6. Peripheral ordinate dimensioning completes.

7. The below drawing is dimensioned by “Near” type ordinate dimensioning. The procedure is the same as above.