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Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:59:15 GMT

I have recently set up my dimensions tool settings and all was working fine and then the text became unreadably small. on inspection the settings look unchanged but i cannot seem to get the text size to go back to what i had which when working fine..

i have lost my arrows as well so something is a miss

cheers steve

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

pendean — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:15:51 GMT

Did you change the annotative scale by chance?

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:25:24 GMT

Not that i know of.. i was in the middle of doing the dimensions.

most of the dimensions were of sealed rectangles and one had a gap. so when i got to this one i could not use the Dim Command so i switched to the Dimlinear Command and this is when it changed and i cannot get it back to the settings even when i switch back to the Dim Command

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

pendean — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:51:17 GMT

Show me: post that portion of your DWG file here.

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:00:30 GMT

as a dwg file or a screen shot?

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:05:47 GMT

here you can see the cold store is how i set my preferences, and the prep tent is the one with the break in the line

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

maxim_k — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:13:29 GMT

Can you verify that the height of the Text Style you are using in the current Dimension Style is set to 0 (zero)?

Maxim

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:22:48 GMT

Hi Maxim..

here are two screen shots showing the settings for each of the different dimensions

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:26:39 GMT

and here is a screen shot of my settings for dimentions

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

maxim_k — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:16:52 GMT

Looks like you are using dimension style with annotative property enabled. Do you really need annotative dimension style?
If no. I'd suggest you to use (set current in the Dimension Style manager) non-annotative dimension style.

Maxim

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

pendean — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:26:51 GMT

I wrote "dwg file" in my last reply.

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:42:22 GMT

ok so i changed it back to standard and no change.

any other options i can try ?

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:43:38 GMT

here is the DWG file..

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

pendean — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:57:19 GMT

This is how your file opens here: how do I replicate your issue? Walk us through it step by step.

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:11:21 GMT

ok great..

so you will notice that most of the Dims have arrows and are all the same in text size (these were done with the normal Dim tool) except the one on top of the prep tent (5000mm) and the on on the servery (2500mm) where i used the Dimlinear tool

all was going fine as i worked my way clock wise from the bottom up until i hit the prep tent which has a break in the line which is why i had to switch tools.

from this point the text size shrunk and i had to manually go in to the dimension to resize the numbers. but ive lost the arrows too..

i did not change anything during the whole process so it seems to have changed when i switched tools

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

maxim_k — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:12:20 GMT

These two dimensions:

have dimension text overrides:

{\H116.66667x;\C0;<>}

{\H83.33333x;\C0;<>}

I think that is the problem.

Maxim

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

maxim_k — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:18:11 GMT

I fine-tuned your current dim style (dimentions)

Is this what you want to achieve?

Maxim

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:28:07 GMT

yes these are the problem dims

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:30:24 GMT

Hi Maxim.. yes thats perfect.. what was i doing wrong?? strangely now that i have opened your one my old one works correctly.

Re: Issues with dimensions tool settings

maxim_k — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:59:42 GMT

Newer try to edit properties of the individual dimensions, use settings in the Dimension Style instead - this should be your golden rule in AutoCAD.
If you need directions look different in one drawing - create additional Dimension Style for them and switch to it when needed.

Maxim