- [Instructor] The dimension palette is really just
another way to change a particular dimension's properties.
So when you're creating a dimension
or when you click on it like this,
you'll see up in the top-hand right a little symbol
for dimension that wants to expand in all four corners.
If I move my mouse over to it,
you'll see that it does expand and shows us
all the various properties of our dimension.
And this is just another way that SOLIDWORKS has introduced
a different workflow so that if, for example,
you're trying to move very quickly
and make a lot of drawings in one day and you have,
for example, standard setup for how you show these drawings,
you can create a favorite over here and have it drop in
so that all the dimensions look the same
when you have to do particular kinds of tolerancing;
let's say for a dowel pin that has to go in
and you always use a very precise tolerance
that's set up in a specific way.
Looking around here we can add parentheses,
we can center the dimension, we can turn it into
an inspection dimension, offset the text,
work with the justification, the vertical justification.
We could add text around it; so you see as I hover
on each of these windows, it gives us
the ability to add text around it.
So this might be a little bit easier
than adding text in the side here of the dimension,
especially if you want it to be formatted a particular way.
I'm going to click on the dimension again and expand this out.
You can also see the ability to set the tolerance
as a maximum variation right here.
And up above we have tolerance types
which we can select from a dropdown,
our tolerance precision, our dimension precision,
unit precision, and also our tolerance
modifier if we want to ad one in there.
So everything that is contained over here on the left
in the dimension properties, for the most part,
is also contained over here inside of this.