Trouble with the dimension scale?

[mgnrr007]

Hi - One of my dimension styles is now dimensioning at 1/4 the correct size. 

I have purged the drawing. I have tried deleting the dimension style but I can not seem to delete this dimension style as it is in use in the drawing. 

Short of re-dimensioning everything, and creating a new dimension style is there anything else to do? Is there a setting that somehow changed in this dimension style?

Thank you!

Megan

[pendean]

Greetings @mgnrr007

Any reason you cannot use DIMSTYLE command to edit the parameters of that one problematic style to reflect the settings you desired?

And by chance is it using a text STYLE setting that is not what you normally do too? For example, if you only ever use STANDARD as a text style name, it being set in one DWG file to something other than what you expect will result in a text and dimensions looking different.

Then there is the whole "annotative text and dimensions" thing, but you did not mention that as a possibility.

[mgnrr007]

Hi Pandean,

Thank you for your quick reply. I looked deeper into the dimension style and see under Primary Units that I had a setting under scale factor of .25. Maybe that is the culprit! I may have been trying to modify the scale of the image of the string for different scale drawing outputs i.e. 1 1/2"=1' vs 1/4"=1'... possibly I had not used the dimension style yet?  ON your other question about text style... I will look... 

Thank you so much!

[pendean]

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@mgnrr007 wrote:

...I may have been trying to modify the scale of the image of the string for different scale drawing outputs i.e. 1 1/2"=1' vs 1/4"=1'... 

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If that is a dire need, and you've never set up ./never wish to set up a dedicated DIMSTYLE for alternate scales needs, then you are ready to move on to annotative text and dimensions (and the use of layouts + scaled viewports)

here is an overview https://www.thesourcecad.com/understanding-annotation-scale-in-autocad/ 

[paullimapa]

As follow up to @pendean reply on annotative dimensioning you can try these settings which are screen captures from AutoCAD running on Windows but maybe similar on the Mac

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/my-dimension-lines-are-huge-numbers-i-set-the-line-to-1...