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Dimensions for Detailing

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Dimensions for Detailing

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Arrangement of dimensions and leaders on furniture 3D-solid parts. Designations, diameters, and positions of drillings. Overall dimensions. Coatings and edge bandings.

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The DimDet command will help you get the details of typical flat sheet furniture items faster. The program studies the structure of selected 3D solids and finds drilling holes, inclined ends, coating materials, and edge bandings. And automatically arranges leaders, diameters, blocks of hole designations, and dimensional chains. After calling this program, in many cases you will only have to restore beauty and move the dimensions. For typical furniture parts, the program will reduce your work time to almost zero. But more complex parts will have to arrange some dimensions manually. However, the time savings in this case will be huge, and the number of errors will be reduced.

Program features:

  • Analyze any 3D solids laid out in the XY plane.

  • The user can rotate the part around Z as they like. In any case, the dimensions will be placed along the X and Y axes.

  • Find drill holes suitable for CNC-style settings.

  • Create dimension chains for frontal holes.

  • Create dimension chains along the straight ends of a part up to lateral drills.

  • Take into account the priority of the 32 mm step for choosing the base of the dimension chain.

  • Consider the maximum width of the drilling machine and measure from both ends of the part if the part is wider than the machine.

  • Create frontal and lateral hole diameters.

  • Use a template with hole and part property substitutions to indicate the diameter. By default, the blind hole template includes drilling depth.

  • Create conditional icons (specified blocks) instead of the hole diameter.

  • Number the drills to use the same numbers as in the Drilling Table. Numbers can be displayed as Latin numbers or letters.

  • Create two overall dimensions for a part.

  • Indicate on the MLeaders the angles of inclination of the flat ends (saw blade inclination).

  • Designate the material (coating) of all visible surfaces of the part on MLeaders.

  • Designate edge materials on all ends of the part on MLeaders.

  • Using a template with substitutions, you can display any information about coatings and edge bandings, surface dimensions, edge lengths, properties of the part itself, and the drawing on leaders.

  • Mark the width and depth of dadoes and grooves on the leaders.

  • For leaders from the middle of surfaces, you can replace the arrow with a dot.

  • Place a point (_Dot block) in the lower left corner of the part to indicate the origin of coordinates for the Drilling Table.

  • Can measure many details at once.

  • Can work in model space. All annotations will be in the XY plane of the world coordinate system.

  • Can work on sheets and measure all the details visible through the viewports.

  • When called through the viewport, the program can adapt the heights of all texts visible in the viewport (calling the Text Height Update command)

  • The program can be called together with NC Prepare and DXF Export commands.

  • You can customize which dimension and leader styles the program will use.

  • The program has several ready-made setting styles. You can create up to 9 more styles and quickly switch between them from the command line.

  • You can use layers, styles, and label blocks from the template file.

  • The program does not delete or modify the original solids in any way.

  • Regardless of the Autodesk® AutoCAD® localization language, you can switch the plugin to English, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese (PRC), Spanish, French, or Turkish localization.

Details

Operating system

win64-platform-icon

Release date

Jun 17, 2022


Last updated

May 13, 2026


Version

2026.03.05


Language

English

Compatible with

ACD-icon

ACD

2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027

AMECH_PP-icon

AMECH_PP

2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027

Capabilities

Mechanical design

Tags

Scheduling

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

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Program limitations:
  • The program is not suitable for mechanical products and other parts of complex shapes.
  • The program works only with 3D solids; it cannot measure any other objects.
  • The program does not try to find a nice location for the dimensions. Many sizes can be stacked on top of each other.
  • The dimensions of cutouts, windows, chamfers, and fillets are not set. Only 2 part dimensions. You can order the revision of the program.
  • Oblique drilling and blind drilling from the bottom of the part are not indicated.
  • The program does not work with custom coordinate systems.
  • The program does not work with details on ModelDoc (ViewBase) views and in viewports with perspective projection.

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