topic Re: Dimension text no longer showing? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 20:17:36 GMT

With sketch dimensions, it used to be that my dimensions were accompanied by their associated numeric figures, the numbers, and these could be grabbed and moved etc. like the dimensioning lines themselves. Fine. For the last few weeks my figures haven't been showing up, but the lines do show normally. Cant find a control for this. Please see attached image. Any suggestions please?

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

ahreum.ryu — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:15:10 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Sorry to hear that..

I found out similar issue here. but it has already fixed in 2016 June 22.

Do you mind sharing your OS information? The problem was happened in OS 10.11.3.

In the meanwhile, I'm going to find the other way.

Many thanks,

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Beyondforce — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:25:27 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Since hiding dimensions inside a sketch is impossible right now, then my only guess it's a local problem. I'm not sure if this problem happens as well in a new file/sketch, but I will start with Clear user cache data.

Please let me know, if it didn't help!

Best Regards / Ben
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Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:50:49 GMT

clearing user data cache did not fix.

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:51:50 GMT

I am moving my responses to the other thread here where the issue was first raised, hopefully that is correct protocol here!

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Beyondforce — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:54:51 GMT

Ok, I hope they will a solution for that soon!

Ben.

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

SallyYang — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 03:16:52 GMT

Are you using the default font of Mac? Would you please try to set your font back to Arial and see if the issue is still existing?

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 03:40:49 GMT

Arial was NOT installed on my system for some reason. Perhaps it was deleted when I got rid of every last trace of Microsoft Office not so long ago. I shut down Fusion, copied the Apple Arial fonts from another Apple machine into /library/fonts/, restarted Fusion, and now my dimensions are displayed correctly!

Funny thing: in Fusion->Preferences->Drawing, Arial was selected as the default font in the greyed-out drop down. When I activated the dropdown by allowing override, the Drop down reconfigured and went blank. So it LOOKED like Arial was set OK, but it actually wasn't even there, just the drop-down's memory of it once being there. So when the team gets time, a little UI fix suggestion would be to update the greyed-out default font menu on Fusion startup if the selected default font is not found to be properly installed.

Thank you Sally Yang for your solution!

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

SallyYang — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 05:53:02 GMT

Thanks for your quickly response and the feedback about the issues in preferences. I will file a defect to track it.

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

aldoDYWFP — Mon, 07 May 2018 23:06:46 GMT

Hello, I´m having the same issue but was not solved as said to change the default font, it was actually in Arial and I changed it to several but the result was the same, I do have installed the Arial Font... at the beginning was working fine but all of a sudden it stopped working.

Even if I run an analysis the messages and results are fontless.

By the way, I'm new at Fusion 360

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 18:32:28 GMT

I am having the exact same issue on my Mac as well.

I have Arial installed. I have also tried changing the font.

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:25:48 GMT

Is there a fix to this?

I've upgraded to Catalina and the sketch dimensions are no longer appearing. Have tried flushing the user cache, changing the font, confirming that Arial is installed and turning off the graphic optimisations but they are resolutely invisible. Any other things to try?

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:34:32 GMT

Managed to fix it myself after finding this similar ticket. Arial is installed on macOS Catalina but is found in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/. Copying the Arial fonts from that directory to /Library/Fonts/ then restarting Fusion 360 brought back my dimensions!

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

LarsRey — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:11:41 GMT

Well suddenly I am in the same boat. No measures. Copied the Arial Fonts over to /Library/Fonts, no difference. Still only arrows and no measure. I am running Monterey on an iMac.

Re: Dimension text no longer showing?

LarsRey — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:02:37 GMT

Anyone in the "Fusion team" checked why Fusion is demanding EIDE? That's one of the big problems why measurements or the numbers of the axis in origin are missing. The axis have fat strikes (font path missing?) and not number, and they changing shape when zooming in and out. The programming with Fusion on macOS seems to me so-so as it goes outside of macOS programming structure and paths.