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Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:16:45 GMT

Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

Despite the fact that the style of the dimension is set to be center, the dimensional constrains sounds not to respect this property. The text is located at the end of the dimension line

What might be the issue here?

Thank you

Best

Jamal

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:09:12 GMT

are any dimension overrised set?

Also have you made the changed to the alightment after the dimension was created?

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:54:10 GMT

Thanks TheCADnoob.

I repeated them and now they are centered

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:59:35 GMT

Excellent!

If you would mark it as the answer so it can be used for future reference 🙂

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:21:09 GMT

The issue is not resolved! I just repeated making the dimensions again!

Not sure why the texts at first were not centered while they are then centered knowing that the same dimension style is used

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:32:21 GMT

Ok, i misunderstood your previous post.

Would you be able to provide the file?

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:35:29 GMT

thanks. it is attached

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:06:31 GMT

def odd.. changing it from annotative to dynamic puts it in the right spot then it moves again....

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

Pointdump — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:10:58 GMT

Jamal,

Why are those dimensions showing a lock symbol?

Dave

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:50:11 GMT

Correct. Why do we have this behavior? Is it a bug?

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:52:59 GMT

Hi Dave,

This is contains dimension.

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:34:25 GMT

Its not a bug. THe reason they don't move back is that their position has been changed manually. The text placement is not at the extension line like you would see in a style but rather aligned with the end point per user input. so when you change styles the style is applied and then the manual user positioning overrides the text style. This is why it does not behave this way when new constraint dimensions are added. To fix the current drawing all you need to do is to remove the manual positioning of the text. after that it will behave like you were thinking it should.

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:43:17 GMT

Thanks. How to center all the texts in one go?

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:24:07 GMT

Select one of your dimension then Select similar > Dim text position > home text

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:52:12 GMT

If this problem has been resolved could you please mark it as solved so that others can find it in the future.

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:25:51 GMT

I’m not able to get the same as your context menu to choose “home text”.

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:38:44 GMT

Ok, try this Once you have them all selected hover over the text grip. Select reset text position

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:49:04 GMT

Suppose that I need to do it for one object. I failed to get the context menu when hovering over the grip! What might be the issue here?

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

TheCADnoob — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:36:04 GMT

try typing

_ai_dim_texthome

Re: Text of dimensional constrains is not centered,

JamaL9722060 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:36:41 GMT

Hi TheCADnoob,

The command you have provide worked fine. However, I would prefer to approach this command from context menu as this command is easy to be forgotten