Creating Stacked Dimension Systems

This task will show you how to create a stacked dimension system on a view.

Stacked dimensions are parallel lines with a common extension line.
Open the Brackets_views03.CATDrawing document.

  1. Click Stacked Dimensions in the Dimensioning toolbar (Dimensions sub-toolbar).

  2. Click a first point on the view.

  3. Click a second point on the view.

    You just created a first dimension within the stacked dimension system.

  4. Click a third point on the view.

    You now created a second stacked dimension in the system.
     

  5. Click a third point on the view.

    You now created a third stacked dimension in the system. Note that this stacked dimension is inserted 
    properly into the system.

    You can create as many stacked dimensions as desired.

  6. Click in the free space to end the stacked dimension creation.
  • Stacked dimension systems work for distance and angle dimensions only.
  • You can interrupt manually extension lines on both single dimensions of a system and the whole system. For more information, refer to the Interrupting Extension Lines section.