Activity 3: Create symbols

In this activity, you:

• Create a Feature Control Frame.
• Create a Datum Identifier.

Prerequisites

• Activity 2 is complete.

Steps

1. Create a Feature Control Frame.

   A Feature Control Frame is a rectangular frame that is divided into two or more sections.

   1. From the Symbols toolbar, select Feature Control Frame.

      

      The Feature Control Frame command is located under the Symbols drop-down list.

   2. On the Front View, select the 2.25 dimension.

   3. Drag your cursor to the right and click to place the feature control frame.

      

      The Feature Control Frame is placed.

   4. Press Enter to bring up the Feature Control Frame dialog.

   5. In the Feature Control Frame dialog:

      • Set the Geometric Symbol to Parallelism.
      • Set the First Tolerance to Ø 0.1.
      • Set the First Datum to A.

      

      The Feature Control Frame dialog.

   6. Click OK.

      

      The finished Feature Control Frame.

2. Add a Datum Identifier to the bottom of the feature control frame.

   A Datum Identifier (datum ID) symbol identifies a datum feature for a feature control frame symbol.

   1. From the Symbols toolbar, select Datum Identifier.

      

      The Datum Identifier command is located under the Symbols drop-down list.

   2. On the Front View, select the feature control frame.

   3. Drag your cursor down and click to place the datum identifier and open the Datum Identifier dialog.

   4. In the Datum Identifier dialog, type in the value B into the Identifier field.

      

      The Datum Identifier dialog.

   5. Click OK to complete the command.

      

      Finished Datum Identifier.

Activity 3 summary

In this activity, you:

• Created a Feature Control Frame.
• Created a Datum Identifier.