I have a couple of students with an odd issue that I've never come across before. When they use text override to place text below the dimension line, the text of both the dimension value and the added text below the line obscures the line. I have checked all settings and her dimension style is the same as mine so this shouldn't be happening. Any ideas?? Below shows both my dimension (showing correctly) and theirs (obscuring the line). Thank you.
How are you forcing the text to a second line? Are you using the Text override property, or are you adding a Dim suffix? I cannot tell from the image posted.
In the image below, all five annotative dimensions started as copies of the top dimension, with the dimension text set above the dimension line (3/32" high text, offset 1/32" from the dimension line, per the Dimension Style).
If I use the \X mtext code to force the text that I want under the dimension line, it does not matter whether use my preferred method of adding it as a Dim suffix (second dimension from the top) or as a Text override (using <> to include the rounded dimension measurement in the text override; third dimension from the top), the added text appears below the dimension line immediately, and the dimension line is not obscured.
The only way I found to obscure the dimension line (okay, the first way I found - I stopped looking at that point), was if I used the \P or \N mtext code to push the additional text to a second line. For either of these codes, this initially resulted in all of the text being above the dimension line (fourth and fifth dimensions from the top, left side). If I drag the dimension text down using the grip, snapping to the dimension line (fourth and fifth dimensions from the top, right side), the dimension line is obscured.
The attached file is what generated the image above. If the above does not resolve your problem, reply and attach a sample file that includes one or more example dimensions that are not working for you and someone here can take a look and see if specific steps to fix them can be provided.
