How to mirror a dimension?

[Anonymous]

I mirror a dimension and the text is on the wrong side and rotated. 

Of course is due to the fact that has been created with another UCS and TEXTMIRR won't help.

Any idea? 

[pendean]

Post the portion of your DWG file that appears in the image here, let's examine your dimension styles settings.

[Anonymous]

attached

[pendean]

That's a picture, we need an actual DWG file of that portion.

[Anonymous]

attached

[pendean]

If I draw a new dimension using the same DIMSTYLE I don't seems to have the problem of mirroring: and if I mirror your clouded dimensions I don't have your issue either.

How are you mirroring your dimensions exactly?

[Anonymous]

well, this should be pretty basic but I can't figure out a way. A mirror is a mirror, but the dim can be a result of a rotate, not only mirror... (attached). Sorry, I used Autocad for only twenty years... just came back to it from Revit.

[pendean]

What year version of ACA are you using? I did the test of your file in ACA2019.

Otherwise there is nothing wrong with your file, and I;m not sure there is a system-only setting for mirroring dims. Do you have a 3rd party add-on by chance?

[JoeVernice · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

The attached lisp routine will flip the dimension text for you.

JMV

[dbroad]

Based on your ucsfollow settings, it looks like you are changing your user coordinate systems.  Each time you dimension in a non-World UCS, it generates the dimension block based on the ucsxdir.  It won't automatically rotate the text when you change the UCS again. @JoeVernice posted a flip dimension text function that should work.  If your desire is to always ensure the text is going in the correct direction and you don't need to flip it back and forth, you might use this function.

(defun c:dimrev (/ ang)
  ;;D. C. Broad, Jr.
  ;;Revolves dimension text based on ucsxdir.
  (setq ang (angle '(0 0 0) (getvar "ucsxdir")))
  (if (ssget '((0 . "DIM*")))
    (vlax-for n
	      (vla-get-activeselectionset
		(vla-get-ActiveDocument
		  (vlax-get-acad-object)))
      (if (vlax-property-available-p n "rotation")
	(vla-put-rotation n ang)
	)
      )
    )
  (princ))

[Anonymous]

This is fantastic, exactly what I was dreaming of for long time!

Thank you thank you thank you 🙂 

[jrr]

I like the rotate routine.  Does anyone have a routine that can mirror a dimension?  If I have multiple short dimensions, they overlap each other and I would like to mirror them similar to what the rotate command given here does.

[jrr]

I like the rotate routine.  Does anyone have a routine that can mirror a dimension?  If I have multiple short dimensions, they overlap each other and I would like to mirror them similar to what the rotate command given here does

[DanHartel]

How do you use the command for the lisp routine you created. I got the app to load and it appears in the command line as FTD. Then what?

Thanks

[JoeVernice]

Load the file using the “appload” command or by dragging the file onto the current drawing window from windows explorer. Type FDT to run the command, select the dimensions to be flipped and hit enter.

JMV