Dimensions appear twice

[Anonymous]

Hello, I wrote a program to update our old drawings before moving them into Vault. It audits the drawing, grabs some text or mtext from the title and gets some block attributes. It takes this data and adds it to some properties. Then, it wblocks the whole drawing to a new location to be checked into Vault. Today I noticed some whacked out dimensions in the drawing. The appear off in space (model) and seem to dimension nothing. When I select one of these dimension, another dimension with the same appearence that is in the correct location highlights also. If I delete it, the other dimension is deleted too. I was flipping out because I've put a couple thousand files in Vault. (not all have this problem) Then I discoved if the dimensions are "Updated", they straighten out. Anyone seen this before? Also, how can I proram (lisp) the updating of all dimensions in a drawing? Thanks, have a good week end. Jrossco

[Anonymous]

I don't know about your first problem -- I haven't
had that happen.  Have you tried Regen before selecting?

On your final question:

(command "dim" "update" "all" ""
"exit")

which will also do leaders.  But if you use
variables like extension line suppression, or more than one dimension style, all
of that will be subordinated to the current settings for such
things.

face=Arial size=2>
--
Kent Cooper

jrossco wrote...

....  When I select one of these dimension,
another dimension with the same appearence that is in the correct location
highlights also. If I delete it, the other dimension is deleted too. .... 
Also, how can I program (lisp) the updating of all dimensions in a drawing?
Thanks, have a good week end. Jrossco

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. Good point. Maybe I'll have to go through the dimensions individually and read their supressions. Bummer. I'll have to add a button that does this so the users can update these screwed up drawings quickly when they open them from Vault. I'm going to try to figure out what's causing this before adding more. Thanks Again.

[scot-65]

Ummm...
Is your DIMASSOC set to 2?
That reactor has some issues with jumping dimensions, especially when moving the objects they are bound to.
Try setting to 1, it is associative, but not bound to the objects.
Then command DIMDISASSOCIATE and window.
If you have a template, set the dimvar to 1 and see what happens down the road...

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[Anonymous]

jrossco wrote:
> Hello, I wrote a program to update our old drawings before moving them
> into Vault. It audits the drawing, grabs some text or mtext from the
> title and gets some block attributes. It takes this data and adds it
> to some properties. Then, it wblocks the whole drawing to a new
> location to be checked into Vault. Today I noticed some whacked out
> dimensions in the drawing. The appear off in space (model) and seem to
> dimension nothing. When I select one of these dimension, another
> dimension with the same appearence that is in the correct location
> highlights also. If I delete it, the other dimension is deleted too. I
> was flipping out because I've put a couple thousand files in Vault.
> (not all have this problem) Then I discoved if the dimensions are
> "Updated", they straighten out. Anyone seen this before? Also, how can
> I proram (lisp) the updating of all dimensions in a drawing? Thanks,
> have a good week end. Jrossco
If these are annotative dimensions, it sounds as if you are seeing
instances of them at more than one scale. Like, your plot is at
1/8"=1'-0", but the dimensions also display when the annotation scale is
set to 1/4"=1'-0." When you select the 1/4" version, the 1/8" version
highlights as well, because they are just two representations of the
same dimension.

Why they would be off in space, I do not know.

[Anonymous]

Thank You. I looked at those things. Dimassoc is set to 1. The dimensions seem the same size so I'm not sure it's an annotation problem. I've placed an example in Customer files under "Double Dimensions" is you care to look at what I'm seeing. Thank You, Jrossco