Specifies the content of a feature control frame. The feature control frame can be stand-alone or attached to a drawing view with a leader line.
The feature control frame style is a substyle of the standard, but its format can be defined independently of the active standard style.
Access
Ribbon:
Manage tab
Styles and Standards panel
Styles Editor
. In the browser, expand the Feature Control Frame item, and then select a Feature Control Frame style to edit.
For the current document, you can click:
- Back to return to the previously edited style. You are prompted to save the previous edits.
- New to create new styles. Select the Add to Standard check box to add to the available styles list in the active standard style.
- Save to save changes to an existing style in the current document.
- Reset to return style values to the saved values.
- Filter to show Local Styles, Styles in the Active Standard, or All Styles in the browser.
- Import to use the Import Style Definition dialog box to import a style exported from another document.
On the Manage tab, Styles and Standards panel, you can use also these commands:
- Click Update to refresh the style list in the browser pane to include new or changed styles in the library.
- Click Save to save changed styles to the style library, which replaces the style library version with the new values.
- Click Purge to delete unused styles from the document.
General tab
Values set on the General tab are used to specify symbol attributes when creating feature control frames using the Feature Control Frame dialog box.
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing sets the availability of feature control frame symbols. Click the drop-down list and select symbols to view, then select the check box beside symbols to include in the list. Unchecked symbols are filtered out of the list.
Selected symbols are available on the Feature Control Frame dialog box.
- Geometric Characteristic
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Indicates characteristics of the geometry for manufacturing purposes.
- Material Removal Modifier
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Indicates conditions to meet when material is removed during machining. Modifier characters are added to text at the insertion point in the drawing.
- Additional Symbols
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Indicated additional symbols used during the design.
Substyles are required by the feature control frame style to define fully. In this case, the feature control frame style is the parent style to leader and text styles.
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Some substyles can be edited while defining the parent style. Click the pencil to edit the selected style. When you save the style, the changes are in effect wherever the style is used.
- Leader Style
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Lists available leader styles in the active standard. Selection determines appearance of leaders associated with feature control frames.
- Text Style
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Lists available text styles in the active standard. Selection determines size and font of text in the feature control frame.
Symbol Size is specified relative to text height or independently, appropriate white space is set and applicable comments entered, if appropriate.
- Scale to Text Height
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Select the check box to size feature control frame symbols to the text height. This value is specified in the Leader style. Clear the check box to size the symbol independent of text height.
- Size
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Unavailable if the Scale to Text Height check box is selected. If unselected, sets the size of feature control frame symbols, expressed in linear units.
- White Space
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Sets the space before and after text in the tolerance and datum cells. Enter the amount of white space in the box in linear units.
- Comments
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Enter a comment about the definition of a particular style, such as date created, created by, or derived from a particular standard.
Options specify appearance of data cells, tolerances, and datum ID symbol.
- Merge
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For Symbol, Tolerance, and Datum data, specifies whether to combine cells when the data is the same. Click a button to alternate between merging and separating the cells.
- Cell Alignment
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Adds space to short cells so that pairs of cells align vertically.
- Datum Alignment
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Available only if Cell Alignment option is switched on.
Adds space to Datum ID cell so it is vertically aligned with symbols cells.
- Leader Attachment
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Controls how a leader is attached to the feature control frame symbol. If selected, the leader is attached to the corner of frame; if not selected, the leader is attached to the middle of frame.
- Italicize Datums
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Check the box to include datums to be displayed in italic font.
- Allow Tolerance 2
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Select the check box to enter a second tolerance value in the Feature Control Frame dialog box. Unavailable when the check box is cleared.
- Datum Leader Side
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Available only if a leader is attached to the corner of frame
. Select the check box to position the datum box on the leader side.
Units tab
For more information about units, see Units reference.