Angle Dimension Text Position

[DanielEvalle]

When I am doing fabrication drawings for parts, I often have 45degree miters.  I also try to keep all of my dimensions associative so that they move with the objects.  First step with my 'workflow' is to copy a dimension from one drawing view to another:

This part I have no problem with.  Just showing a screencap to prove I'm not doing anything crazy.  I'm just copying an angular dimension from one associated drawing view (viewbase) in paperspace to another.

So my problems are:

1.

Upon using DIM REASSOCIATE, the angle will flip flop around, sometimes even to the supplementary angle reading (135 degrees)

Why doesn't the position of the dimension/dim lines just stay put?

2. 

When I go to move the dimension/dim lines they jump to insane locations.  I try to keep the "radius" of the dimension to 3/4" or 1" typically, but sometimes the default position of the text is pulled 7+ inches away when I adjust the radial grip.

So, is there a setting or default that I'm missing?  How can I stop this from happening over and over?

[jskalaXDDX5]

I have tried finding settings for dimensions that make things work consistently, but in the end I ended up relying on AIDIMTEXTMOVE command...it will accept a command alias, but I like to use it in CUI macros to specify command options...

[DanielEvalle]

Thanks for the try... but it seems like this command is just cycling through the grip options, which I do, but just hit ctrl to cycle.  Are you saying you use "AIDIM..." command within a macro to have a handful of preset transformations for a handful of your dimensions?

[jskalaXDDX5]

This is all I really use, combining software for mouse and keypad...I try not to grip edit when I can avoid it...some people love it, I mostly don't

[nesosimic98]

Had a similar issue with associative dims. I my case, the fault was a my lake of minusi during the DIM REAOSSCIATE phase.

When relinking dim's associative point with the object, I accidently linked the point to an other dim's assossiative point. Meaning this dim wasn't associated to the object but to an other dim associative point.
This resulted in strange dim behaviours.£

Otherwise, in their properties, did you make sure ''assossiativ'' rpoperty of this problematic dim's isn't on ''partial''.

[DanielEvalle]

Oh I see.  Sorry quick flex, I've heavily developed my "Keyboard Shortcuts" section of my CUI to work in tandem with my 12button gaming mouse... to give me 36 commands at the push of a button.

Each of the 12 buttons on my mouse are bound to simple Keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+1, ...+2, ..., ...+r, ...+w, ...+e, etc) then I add "Shift" or "Shift+Alt" to put me at 3x as many macros

Then I build the macro inside the AutoCAD CUI. (gotta learn macro syntax for that)

[DanielEvalle]

Yeah, I do a SELECTSIMILAR on my layout and then QUICKSELECT > "Associative": Not equal "Yes" to make sure I catch all of my partial associations.