This article is mainly about identifying the different controls, and explaining what they do. Solid Edge offers several places to control the display of dimensions using units, delimiters and standards. For example, in SolidWorks, you can take a drawing from one computer, open it on a different computer, and something like the system delimiter might change (some areas use commas instead of periods to delimit the 1s place from the first decimal place, so 25.4 vs 25,4).

Ease of use does look good on the surface, but once you get into it, you realize that the software is making some automatic decisions for you, and these may not always be the best choices for you and your way of producing parts, assemblies, and drawings. Other CAD software may be primarily about ease of use. Solid Edge is largely about control and consistency, especially in drawings. Not all software works from the same assumption, however. This is a great philosophy and I understand why it is so appealing to most Solid Edge users. The philosophy that Edge uses is that the drawing should always look the same, regardless of where it is opened or who opens it. Solid Edge offers users a lot of control over how it deals with units and drafting standards. So my usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule has been disrupted a little. For those of you outside of the US, Monday was Labor Day, which kind of demarks the end of summer.

Ansi dimensioning standards