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What's up with the new dimension scale in MDT6???

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Message 1 of 10
Anonymous
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What's up with the new dimension scale in MDT6???

Can someone please explain the rationale of MDT 6 forcing DIMSCALE to 1
when placing dimensions in drawing view?

For years I have used a dimension style that I use on all drawings, and I
set the overall scale for dimensions depending on the size of the drawing.
But now MDT6 always puts an override on dimscale to 1.

The solution, I have read, is to goto AMOPTIONS and set the layout scale.
This is a horible solution as it forces me to deal with layouts that are not
1:1.

Is the a way to tell MDT6 to use a specific dimscale other than by changing
the scale for the entire layout???

Muchos gracias,

- Jose
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Message 2 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

Having the same problem in MDT 2009

And i agree changing the layout scale in AMOPTIONS isn't a good solution.

Nobody ever came up with a proper solution?
Message 3 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I been working with MDT6.0 for years - never had any problems.
Al

wrote in message news:6028778@discussion.autodesk.com...
Having the same problem in MDT 2009

And i agree changing the layout scale in AMOPTIONS isn't a good solution.

Nobody ever came up with a proper solution?
Message 4 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

So you mean that changing the overall scale of your dimstyle would directly update all your dimensions?

When placing new dimensions the OVERALL DIM SCALE setting (on the FIT-tab in DIMSTYLE) is being ignored and it just used the value 1. (Just to make clear, I am talking about the size of the dim text and arrows)

It does accept other changes, like color, arrow style, textheight etc. But it just ignores the overall scale setting...

After I typ in the command line : DIM, UP, ALL it does update though

From then it seems to follow all changes in DIMSTYLE settings box.

I am using my own personalised style. Which has been set in AM:STANDARDS under DIMENSION: SETTINGS

When doing a multi edit (AMDIMMEDIT) to change the "precision" on multiple dims, only the first selected dim updates. Additional text does get added to all of them...


It very well could be a specific setting but where to find it? I have already tried a lot of the settings in AM:options under AM;standards.

I am using the latest version of MDT (2009)

Thanks for any tips
Message 5 of 10
ed.galicki
in reply to: Anonymous

I still use MDT6 almost exclusively - even though I have most of the newer ones loaded. I have not experienced this problem. I set dimscale for drawings like the old days, 1/4 scale plots I draw things 1/1, make the insertion of the drafting format 4 times bigger, set dimscale to 4 and plot at 1/4. I do this in both model space and paper space, without ever seeing the forced setting you describe. Maybe you have something set in your dwt to change it to 1.
Message 6 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

Yes you are probably right about some setting... But where to find it? Any suggestions?
Message 7 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

Yes you are probably right about some setting... But where to find it? Any suggestions?
Message 8 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

Yes you are probably right about some setting... But where to find it? Any suggestions?
Message 9 of 10
Ozziemark
in reply to: Anonymous

Sorry for the triple reply, still getting used to the new forum interface. hehe

I keep getting an Error message after posting a reply, but message does get displayed apparently...

Interface looks a lot better by the way!!
Message 10 of 10
s2ware
in reply to: Anonymous

Did you ever get a fix? I have the same issue in MDT 2009

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