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Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:34:20 GMT

Hello AutoCAD Community!

(Background information: I am running AutoCAD LT 2018. All graphics drivers, etc. are up to date.)

I am running into an issue with my dimension text boxes. I have the dim. text box fill color set to background for my dimension style. This is working fine when my text boxes only contain dimensions. The issue I'm having is that when I add additional text to the dim. text boxes, the background color fill expands past where I have the text box limits set:

This happens even if I have the text box pulled in to only fit the text:

I'm not sure if I need to adjust something with my dimension style or maybe the tolerances? Any help would be appreciated!

Re: Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

pendean — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:00:03 GMT

Can you post a portion of your DWG file with that problem in place? I'm unable to replicate the issue in a quick test here.

Re: Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:10:09 GMT

Yes. I have saved this file separately so that you can see the properties. I am having this issue on many projects/ files, so hopefully it has to do with the properties rather than the file itself!

Re: Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

WarrenGeissler — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:05:16 GMT

This is an interesting bug. Your text style you are using in your dimstyle is set to a specific height (3"). Your DIMSTLE is set to a scale factor (32). While the text is showing up correctly, the program actually thinks it's 32x that size and is accounting for that with the background.

A temporary fix is to grab the line wrap in the text editor and pull it all the way closed:

A more permanent fix would be to use a text style with no height (0) and specify the PLOT height (3/32") in your dimension style.

Re: Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:14:02 GMT

Thank you so much!

The quick fix will work for now, but I will definitely look into our dimension style and fix it that way for future use.

Re: Dimension Fill Color Text Box Size Error

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:26:06 GMT

I was unable to reproduce the error in any other existing dimensions in the file, or in newly created ones. ("plain vanilla AutoCAD 2018" 154.0.0, no add-ons, Win10 Pro 1709 16299.309) Audit found no errors in the file. It doesn't seem to be a "file error"

Doing a "match properties" from a good one to the bad one had no effect.

Removing the text in the "bad" dimension didn't remove the mask overflow either.

Deleting the bad dimension, then creating a new dimension and adding the text note worked fine for me.

Has this been happening ever since installing 2018, or did it "work fine until it didn't"?

If always with 2018, could be an installation error, or if you imported custom settings from a previous release, that could be the culprit. In this case, try a reset of AutoCAD to factory settings, and/or try a new profile. Could also be the result of a 3rd-party add-on, if you have any installed, try disabling them one at a time and see if the error stops.

Could also be the result of a recent Windows update, look at your system logs and see if the start of the problem coincided with a Windows update, if so, try un-installing any updates (one at a time) that were installed at the time of the error-beginning. Also a remote possibility of a corrupted Windows user account, better chance of this if there is any odd behavior in other programs.

That's all I can think of....repaired file attached