LDD 4 AND DIMS

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me why dims will shoot out into space for no apperant
reason. I opened a file in ldd 4 and some of the aligned dims have extension
that shoot way off the dwg.
I have seen this but it is getting old.

thanks for the help

[Anonymous]

I've seen this "travesty" myself in the past with LDT 2K4 Robert.

Just not lately, as far as I can remember.

And my recollection at the moment seems to involve the process of importing
some Architect's dimensions, or some older dimensions from the previous
releases - 2Ki, 2K2, etc.

A search of the Knowledge Base came up fairly "dry" unfortunately:
http://tinyurl.com/27hntu

Maybe some of the others around here will have a more proper "cause and
effect" to relate?

HTH's a little.

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"robert" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me why dims will shoot out into space for no apperant
reason. I opened a file in ldd 4 and some of the aligned dims have extension
that shoot way off the dwg.
I have seen this but it is getting old.

thanks for the help

[Anonymous]

I believe it has to do with conflicting drawing scales. When I have seen this is when I copy/clip a detail from one project to a different project. Once in a while the imported detail will have a couple massive dimension lines. To resolve this, I left click the oversized dimension, then right click for properties menu, then under Dim Text Position, I select HOME text. I can't recall now if I needed to alter any other properties, but check scale related options under the dimension's properties if need be.
HTH