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Problem with Dimension Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:22:50 GMT

I got a drawing that has the dimension lines broken up into three separate lines for each one, being the left arrow, text, and right arrow. I had this happen to me once before and someone gave me a command where I input a new value and it fixed everything. Does anyone know what that command could be or how I could fix it into one line that's all connected? Thanks.

Re: Problem with Dimension Lines

scot-65 — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:06:10 GMT

DIMASSOC
1 OR 2

???

Re: Problem with Dimension Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:19:39 GMT

Thanks for the reply. After looking up that command, that seems like exactly what I'm looking for to solve the problem, and it was set at 0 so that explains why everything was broken up. However when i change the value to either 1 or 2 nothing seems to change.

Is it possible I'm screwing it up, or that the original file I was sent was made in a way that this command wouldn't work?

Re: Problem with Dimension Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:51:31 GMT

Resetting DIMASSOC will alter the placement of NEW dimensions, it won't help repair exploded dimensions ... other than re-dimensioning them with DIMASSOC set to 1 or 2.

Re: Problem with Dimension Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:21:42 GMT

Thanks for the reply. So am I stuck here do you all think? I swear I found a solution to this for a project I did before but it's possible it may have been different from this and I'm mis-remembering. I appreciate everyone's help so far.

Edit: Alright guys, I'm just gonna go with the new lines and not worry about the old ones. This is a guy I work with pretty frequently and this has only come up twice so far, so I'm just gonna ask him to keep it regular. I don't know how he's changed it for two different projects but apparently he's capable of anything. That's my buddy for ya.

I do think on the last project where I thought I fixed it I only fixed the new lines with dimassoc. So I'm gonna mark that as the solution and say thanks because in the end this solved a lot of questions for me. I appreciate everything from you guys!