ChainDimensionSet Object


Description

The ChainDimensionSet object represents a chain dimension set placed on a sheet.

Methods

Name Description
AddMembers Method that adds member(s) to the chain set based on the input geometry or dimension and returns the newly created member(s).
Arrange Method that resets the chain dimension set such that all members are equidistant from the view boundary. Dimensions are aligned to the specified base dimension.
Delete Method that deletes the ChainDimensionSet.
GetReferenceKey Method that generates and returns the reference key for this entity.
MergeMembers Method that merges two members of the set by deleting the second member and healing (modifying) the first member to fill the gap. The input members must be contiguous, else the method will fail.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
AttributeSets Property that returns the AttributeSets collection object associated with this object.
DimensionType Property that returns the dimension type of the chain set. Possible values are kAlignedDimensionType, kHorizontalDimensionType and kVerticalDimensionType.
Layer Read-write property that gets and sets the layer for the dimension set.
Locked Read-write property that gets and sets the lock status of the dimension set.
Members Property that returns all the member LinearGeneralDimension objects.
Parent Property that returns the parent sheet of the object.
Precision Read-write property that gets and sets the number of decimal places displayed for all the members in this set. Valid range of values is 0 to 8.
Style Read-write property that gets and sets the dimension style used for this dimension set.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

ChainDimensionSets.Add, ChainDimensionSets.AddUsingBaseDimension, ChainDimensionSets.Item, LinearGeneralDimension.ChainDimensionSet

Version

Introduced in version 2011