You can
extract dimensions from drawings, then modify numeric values and designate additional
information.
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In a drawing, click
(Document ribbon).
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In the graphics area, box-select a
dimension.
A balloon appears next to the extracted annotation and the image
appears at the top of the Characteristic
tab in the Properties/Preferences
PropertyManager. The software attempts to fill the correct values in the
Characteristic tab.
- Optional:
(PDF files only.) If the
software
does not recognize all of the values in the annotation correctly, you can use
the selective recapture tools to create the correct values or enter them
manually:
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At the top of the Characteristic tab, box-select a value.
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Click one of the following based on the value you
box-selected:
- Perform OCR of
selected
region
- Perform OCR of
nominal
value
- Perform OCR of
tolerance
value
- Crop image to
selected region
- Recapture currently
selected characteristic
- Optional:
In the Properties/Preferences PropertyManager, under General, Inspection, Ballooning, and
Custom, enter values for the remaining
data in the annotation.