Modifying Your Drafting Dimensions Directly

Mastercam 2023 introduced in-panel methods to the Drafting function panel to modify font format and drafting entity placement. This enhancement removed the extra steps necessary to make modifications. Mastercam 2024 expands those changes.

The new Drafting panel incorporates dimension attributes, text, and witness and leader settings into three new pages. This eliminates the need to exit the panel and edit these settings in the System Configuration dialog box.

In addition to the Basic and Advanced pages available in previous versions, there are three new panel pages.

• Dimension Attributes: Sets properties for coordinates and symbols.

• Dimension Text: Sets properties for text size, point dimensions, text direction, and text orientation.

• Leaders/Witness: Sets properties for leaders, witness lines, and arrows.

The changes you make in the function panel do not change Mastercam’s default settings. If you need to make changes to the defaults, use the pages in the System Configuration dialog box.