Annotate Dims dragging

[Anonymous]

When annotating an idw drawing using drawing dimensions on projected views I'm having a hard time dragging a vertical dimension to a preferred position. I can drag the text, but not the arrows and extension lines. Shouldn't they rubber band around? Also, I have a dimension that needs to be re attached to the center of a hole. Shouldn't I just drag the end point of the extension line back to where it should be? It doesn't seem to work it just snaps back to its unattached position.

[Anonymous]

Short Vertical dimensions can be a little tricky sometimes to get the whole
thing to move left and right. It just takes a little persistence usually
though. Sometimes I move the text out of the way and then try to drag the
rest of the dim.

To get the extension line back to the center, going from memory I believe
you have to drag it over the top of the circle until you see the center dot
and then you can snap to that.

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"tmalinski" wrote in message
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> When annotating an idw drawing using drawing dimensions on projected views
I'm having a hard time dragging a vertical dimension to a preferred
position. I can drag the text, but not the arrows and extension lines.
Shouldn't they rubber band around? Also, I have a dimension that needs to be
re attached to the center of a hole. Shouldn't I just drag the end point of
the extension line back to where it should be? It doesn't seem to work it
just snaps back to its unattached position.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Kent, I can now rubber band the vertical dim OK, but I still can't re-attach the dim to the center of the hole. It lets me drag it to the dot in the center, but when I drop it in place the extension line jumps away as if it is trying to snap to another point somewhere. Is ther a way to control the snap points manually?

[Anonymous]

Looking at it now, hovering around the actual circle doesn't make the dot show up, but I
do seem to remember cases where I had to drag across the circle to before the dot would
show up.... maybe I am mixing something else up with this.

About all I can suggest is to zip it up and post it to customer files where someone will
most likely take a look and give some feedback as to what might be going wrong.

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"tmalinski" wrote in message news:f173587.1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thanks Kent, I can now rubber band the vertical dim OK, but I still can't re-attach the
dim to the center of the hole. It lets me drag it to the dot in the center, but when I
drop it in place the extension line jumps away as if it is trying to snap to another point
somewhere. Is ther a way to control the snap points manually?