topic Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

EnriqueNunez — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:58:36 GMT

Hi everyone,

I’m working with the team in charge to move to MBE, and I’ve run into a challenge I hope someone can help with.

I’m trying to remove the general linear tolerances that appear on every part (see attachment 1). I experimented with setting the "tol_Display" option to "no", which does remove the general tolerances, but unfortunately, it also hides all the local tolerances on features of size (see attachment 2 and 3).

Has anyone found a way to remove just the general linear tolerances while keeping the local ones visible?
I’ve attached a reference image to show what I’m working with. Any tips, workarounds, or settings I might have missed would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

KenFarley — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:56:21 GMT

The tol_display config option has three possible settings: no, yes, and no_tol_tables. You might want to try the last one.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

EnriqueNunez — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:42:19 GMT

I did, but the result it's the same, both tolerances, local and general, are gone.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

Van_AG — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:02:01 GMT

Set config option tolerance_standard to iso

For existing models and model templates set

File > Prepare > Model Properties > Tolerancing Standard > Standard > ISO/DIN

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

EnriqueNunez — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:14:49 GMT

Hello,
I tried the option you mentioned, and it successfully achieves the intended result (see attachment). However, since we are currently working on the project to transition our company to a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), we primarily use models based on the ASME standard, though we also incorporate models aligned with ISO GPS. As part of this initiative, it is a requirement to manage the dimensioning and tolerancing system also represented within the 3D model. Therefore, this solution would conflict with that requirement.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

Catalina — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:45:50 GMT

Hi @EnriqueNunez ,

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Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

EnriqueNunez — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:38:57 GMT

Hi, thank you for following up. I haven’t received a clear answer to my question yet.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

JakubBanasiuk — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:04:40 GMT

File > Prepare > [Detailing Section] Detail Options - CHANGE:
default_tolerance_mode: nominal

This will set the default tolerance to nominal, so when you place the dimensions, they will have no tolerance by default:

Only after you've changed it to, say plus-minus, the tolerance will appear. You can then select your tolerance table or set manual tolerance values:

Hope this is what you are looking for. If so, you can apply this setting in your speciffic template file - you can then select if for specific purpose only.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

pausob — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:10:00 GMT

So... you want the model to use the ASME standard but don't want to see that tolerance per decimal-places table in that graphics area?

That's not possible, AFAIK, except perhaps with this hack:

Set the "Secondary Highlight" color to be the same as "Background" color:

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

Srinivasan-Iyer — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:40:47 GMT

You would need to maintain two different configuration files for .pro and .dtl.

e.g. asme_config.pro ---> which calls asme_config.dtl

iso_config.pro ---> which calls iso_config.dtl

using the .pro setting...

drawing_setup_file --> asme_config.dtl or iso_config.dtl

format_setup_file --> asme_config.dtl or iso_config.dtl

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

BG_9869104 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:39:21 GMT

Displaying general tolerances is part of the ASME standard. Not displaying them is fighting the standard. They disappear when switching to ISO because general tolerances are not part of the standard.

Have to have separate start parts, dtls, etc setup to manage each type.

You can set ISO to hide the general tolerances and manually set many things back to fit ASME but some stuff will not be right. That is how it will be if you want to go against/modify the standard.

I used to work at a place that used metric and should have been on ISO but instead wanted the general tolerances and set ASME.... Oh the joy I had manually forcing legacy files to the will of management that could not comprehend what a pain it is to not follow standards when the software is designed to follow standards.

Re: Removing General Linear Tolerances Without Affecting Local Feature Tolerances

Srinivasan-Iyer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:59:16 GMT

From the dimensions, I guess that you are using a Metric system for Dimensioning. If so, are you using ISO standards for General Tolerances? The general tolerances shown in pic [1] appears only when set to ANSI Standard.

You need to set the Tolerance Standard to ISO for it to disappear. Refer picture below.