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Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:32:27 GMT

I have problem with dimensions centering position.

I have problem to prepare Dimension stile in the way to put the dimension to the center (horizontal and vertikal). Horizontal no problem but when I choose the "centered" commend for horizontal than the program throws the text higher instead to the center.

Before when I worked with AM_DIN dimension stiles I had no problem. Now I am preparing the "TEMPLATE" DWG neu and make neu stiles I have a problem.

Thanks for help.

Boris

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

imadHabash — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:02:28 GMT

when i use your dimension style (Transpak text 05 ) i have not notice your issue. try to use from Dimension tab >> Linear option . and don't forget to set current your needed dimension style. if do you want to move the text select the dimension and hoover over the middle grip till a pop up appeared with some options that may help. see below image

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:17:27 GMT

I need the dimension in this way. When I select the "Center" vor vertikal position it goes hier instead to center between the Dim lines.

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

kadmonkee — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:11:45 GMT

go into your Dimstyle dialogue box set current the dimstyle you will be using

go to the text tab and select centered for both vertical nad horizontal, then check Aligned with dimension line.

if you need the text to be above the dimension line set the vertical to above

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

imadHabash — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:36:31 GMT

set current your needed dim style then change DIMTAD and DIMTVP to (zero) . see below image

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Michiel.Valcke — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:15:05 GMT

If you set the text position horizontal and vertical to centered you should get the result you want.

For some reason however your 'text inside align' property in your drawing defaults to 'On', which causes the text to offset for some strange reason. If you switch that property to Off your text will align properly. (see screenshot)

I don't know which variable controls that setting though, nor do I know how you can enforce that setting through the DIMSTYLE. Maybe someone smarter than me can help you out with that.

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:18:43 GMT

Look at the DWG I uploaded. If you do the settings you described happens what I described.

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:15:46 GMT

@imadHabash wrote:

set current your needed dim style then change DIMTAD and DIMTVP to (zero) . see below image

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DIMTAD was already zero in the example drawing, but DIMTVP was not. Setting that to zero fixed it for me. The odd thing is that I have not been able to find anything in Help about where that is in the Dimension Style dialog boxes, if anywhere -- it seems you just need to know about the System Variable.

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

imadHabash — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:50:02 GMT

Kent1Cooper wrote : DIMTAD was already zero in the example drawing, but DIMTVP was not.

from the example drawing in the OP ... DIMTAD = 3 .

Re: Dimension Text - Vertically centering

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:27:27 GMT

@imadHabash wrote:

Kent1Cooper wrote : DIMTAD was already zero in the example drawing, but DIMTVP was not.

from the example drawing in the OP ... DIMTAD = 3 .

I'm sure I got that 0 from somewhere, but now I don't know what I was looking at.... But while it's 3 in the drawing at large as you open it, if you set the Style of the drawn Dimension current with no overrides, it's [still not 0, but not 3 either] 1.

Then, drawing another Dimension in that Style doesn't have that big offset in text position, because that's caused by DIMTVP, which applies only when DIMTAD = 0. It's 1 in the definition of that Style, but that drawn Dimension has six overrides in Extended Data, of which presumably one is that DIMTAD is 0 instead of the Style's 1 [I think it's the (1070 . 77) (1070 . 0) pairing in Xdata]. That would have caused the drawing's DIMTVP value of 2.5 to affect that Dimension.

DIMTVP as a numerical value doesn't seem to appear in the Properties palette -- just the resultant displaced text position.

TO FIX that displaced-text one, in Acad2016 or later, you can use -DIMSTYLE > Apply, or in earlier versions, DIM > Update.