Dimension Style Manager

[antonio_oliveiraG63JM]

Hello everyone!

I installed Autocad on a new machine and I'm having a problem with the dimension arrows.

When I use the Closed Filled model, as shown in the image below, the arrows simply don't appear.

When I change to another type of configuration, the arrows are inserted normally.

What could be happening?

Note: I have already reinstalled Autocad twice and the problem persists. This only happens with this machine and it is for any file. If I create a file on this machine (which apparently does not have the arrows) and I open this same file on another machine, the arrows appear normally!

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

[cadffm]

Hi,

i am away from Acad and not sure if this can be the problem,

but you have to spend just seconds to test it:

FILLMODE is on(1)?

If yes:

Does it works in another file with the filled arrow?

[pendean]

@antonio_oliveiraG63JM Is this an issue in ALL files, even in a blank new file, or are you only opening and trying the one DWG file over and over again? I can't tell from your posts to date.

[antonio_oliveiraG63JM]

Hello!
In any file, whether new or created on another machine, regardless of which one it is, in no case does the arrow appear for the case in question.

[antonio_oliveiraG63JM]

Yes, it is active, the problem persists, unfortunately.

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

This may not help much, but maybe it will trigger a thought for someone.

The Closed Filled arrow, unlike any other choice, is not a Block like the others.  If you use other Blocks as arrows in Dimensions, Block definitions for them come in, and become available in INSERT just like any other Block, but there is no such definition for Closed Filled.  And if you Explode a Dimension object using other arrows, they are there as Block insertions.  But if you Explode one using Closed Filled arrows, those do not become Blocks, but only 2D Solid objects [which you can change the shape of by grip-editing, etc.].

So when Closed Filled arrows are current, a Dimension command does not stick in arrows as Blocks as it does with all the other choices, but rather somehow constructs the arrows as 2D Solids in-place.  That suggests that if they're not there, it's a problem with the 2D-Solid-constructing operation, because it can't be that a Block definition is missing.  And that suggests re-installation -- if you've already done that, has it been from an installation file previoiusly downloaded?  Can you go further back to re-download and then re-install?

[antonio_oliveiraG63JM · Accepted solution]

We installed AUTOCAD from an external hard drive that we have at the company for the various Autodesk software installations that we use. I haven't tried reinstalling it yet, as I didn't think there would be any problems related to that.

I'll reinstall it and report back with the results, but other than that, is there any other alternative that you can suggest?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

---

@antonio_oliveiraG63JM wrote:
Hello!
In any file, whether new or created on another machine, regardless of which one it is, in no case does the arrow appear for the case in question.

---

Here are the ways to open a support case with Autodesk if you are on subscription to seek out Autodesk Support's help:
https://www.autodesk.com/support/account/manage/use/support#:~:text=com/plans.-,Contact%20support,-S...
and
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Contacting-a-techn...

[antonio_oliveiraG63JM]

Thanks for the support!

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

---

@antonio_oliveiraG63JM wrote:
.... but other than that, is there any other alternative that you can suggest?

---

You could use a User-specified Arrow Block, and define one just like the Closed Filled one.  To get it right, do a Dimension using Closed Blank arrows, and then [independent of any Dimension] INSERT the corresponding Block somewhere at scale factors of 1 and rotation of 0.  Then you'll know the orientation and insertion base point and size -- trace over it with a 2D Solid or SOLID Hatch pattern, and define that as a Block.