topic Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space in AutoCAD Forum

Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:08:10 GMT

Hello,

I am a comparatively new user of AutoCAD.

I have a drawing which shows wrong dimensions on viewport paper space. for example, where it is showing 1'6" on the drawing, it is showing 1/8" on the paper space.

Is there some setting that needs to be changed to avoid this?

Regards,

Aditi

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 03:30:02 GMT

The first Check, Click Your dimension, and then prompt command PROP.

Then You can see the object of properties.

So, Check Text override value.

The second check, Go to the Dim style, In Primary Units, Check Scale Factor.

The Scale factor multiplies your dim value when you create dimension.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 04:09:25 GMT

Hello,

Thank you so much for your reply.

I have been going through a lot of discussions about this problem, one of them posted this morning.

It did mention checking the dimscale value, which I did and it is set to 1.

As what you have mentioned, I also checked the text override and that value was blank.

There are solutions about dimensioning in model space to get the correct values, but since I have more than one viewports and layouts, that is not going to work for me.

Please help...

Regards,

Aditi

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 04:22:37 GMT

This will sound really weird, but I actually copied the entire drawing onto a new file and it worked, I am now getting all the dimensions correct on the paper space!

Was it something I was doing wrong in the original?

Regards,

Aditi

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 04:37:14 GMT

I always think that if a solution is as either Tricks or Useful information that can solve, that is a good solution.

Could you post your drawing?.

Then we can find out your problem quickly.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 04:40:04 GMT

Hello,

Here's the original that I was working on..

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 04:57:41 GMT

Where are the dimensions?.

There is no any dimension type on your drawing.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:05:59 GMT

That's the other thing that happened,

I did set up a lot o annotations and dim styles, but for some reason, I am not able to see them.

Please see the attached file with incorrect dimensions on the layout (ignoring the size of the dim text... its not editable right now..and I dont know why.. )

Appreciate your patience

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:11:59 GMT

ok,

here you go... this is the one with smaller text

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:26:05 GMT

Hi,

>> Here's the original that I was working on..

Which software was used to create this dwg-file?

Because when I open your drawing AutoCAD tells me that this file was not created by an Autodesk product.

- alfred -

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:29:29 GMT

Well, this was given to us in class, so I don't know what software was used to create it.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:37:42 GMT

Hi,

>> this was given to us in class, so I don't know what software was used

And the dimension already existed when you have got the drawing?

I'm a bit lost, because you wrote about 2 dimensions, but I only see one (in the layout "dimensions"), where do I find the second dimension object with a different dim-value?

- alfred -

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:47:36 GMT

I apologize for all this confusion.

We got this drawing in class and I started dimensioning the drawing on the same file.

It was not working as it should so I hit the forums to take a look if anyone else was having the same problem. In one of the posts, I found a few solutions which I tried to apply to my problem, but none of them worked.

Then, I copied this drawing to another file, and the dimensioning worked..

that is what all these replies were about.

And then I was asked to upload the original file, with the wrong dimension (the drawing has only one dimension as of now), and I did that, it is the problem-file which I uploaded last.

Regards,

Aditi

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:51:32 GMT

Hi,

>> Then, I copied this drawing to another file, and the dimensioning worked..

Ok, that means you have got a solution and all is working now? If so please mark the post with the solution using the green button "ACCEPT AS SOLUTION".

- alfred -

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 05:53:42 GMT

sure.

Thanks for your response.

Regards,

Aditi

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

rsf1970.rsf — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:59:03 GMT

I had the same trouble today and found this post. I appears that no one solved this problem. I found that the cause is the system variable dimassoc. If it is set to "1" it will give the dimension of distance on the paper, if set to "2" it will give the acutal model space dimension for the part.

Hope this helps anyone having this issue.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 01:19:33 GMT

rsf1970, that dimassoc command solved the issue for me!

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

MartyWallace — Fri, 08 May 2020 03:00:23 GMT

Thanks! It solved my problem.

Re: Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

rsf1970.rsf — Fri, 08 May 2020 16:33:17 GMT

Glad to help. I posted that years ago and it has been found by many so far
to help.