Tolerance

Consists of controls that are used to control the generation of toleranced dimensions.

Tolerance category controls

The active dimension settings can be set to match those of a dimension element with the Match All Element Settings tool.

Tolerance Generation

If on, or if either Upper or Lower is set to a non-zero value, tolerances are generated.

If off, or both Upper and Lower are set to zero, tolerances are not generated.

Attributes

Contains controls that are used to set the tolerance type and the upper and lower tolerance limits.

Type

Sets the tolerance type:

Tolerance types from top: Plus/Minus; Plus/Minus if Upper and Lower limits are different; Limit

• Plus/Minus
— The dimension and the upper and lower limits are expressed as positive and negative limits.

• Limit
— The dimension is expressed as the upper and lower limits.

Upper

Sets the upper tolerance limit, in working units. For example, a positive limit in the upper tolerance and a negative limit in the lower tolerance will produce a positive number for the upper tolerance and a negative number in the lower tolerance, when the dimension is placed.

Key-in: DIMENSION TOLERANCE UPPER [mu:su]

Lower

Sets the lower tolerance limit, in working units.

Key-in: DIMENSION TOLERANCE LOWER [mu:su]

The TV=[mu:su, mu:su] alternate key-in is used to simultaneously set the upper and lower dimension tolerances.

Stacked If Equal

When on, and if the upper and lower tolerance limits are equal, the values display one above the other.

Text Size

Sets the tolerance text size, specified as a multiple of the dimension text Height and Width.

Key-in: DIMENSION TOLERANCE SCALE [factor]

Left Margin

Sets the horizontal space, in text height units, between tolerance text and dimension text.

Sep. Margin

Sets the vertical space, in text height units, between tolerance values.