Dimensions showing wrong on viewport paper space

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am a comparatively new user of AutoCAD. 

I have a drawing which shows wrong dimensions on viewport paper space. for example, where it is showing 1'6" on the drawing, it is showing 1/8" on  the paper space.

Is there some setting that needs to be changed to avoid this? 

Regards,

Aditi

[Anonymous]

The first Check, Click Your dimension, and then prompt command PROP.

Then You can see the object of properties.

So, Check Text override value. 

The second check, Go to the Dim style, In Primary Units, Check Scale Factor.

The Scale factor multiplies your dim value when you create dimension.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Thank you so much for your reply.

I have been going through a lot of discussions about this problem, one of them posted this morning. 

It did mention checking the dimscale value, which I did and it is set to 1. 

As what you have mentioned, I also checked the text override and that value was blank. 

There are solutions about dimensioning in model space to get the correct values, but since I have more than one viewports and layouts, that is not going to work for me. 

Please help...

Regards,

Aditi

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

This will sound really weird, but I actually copied the entire drawing onto a new file and it worked, I am now getting all the dimensions correct on the paper space! 

Was it something I was doing wrong in the original? 

Regards,

Aditi

[Anonymous]

I always think that if a solution is as either Tricks or Useful information that can solve, that is a good solution.

Could you post your drawing?.

Then we can find out your problem quickly.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Here's the original that I was working on.. 

[Anonymous]

Where are the dimensions?.

There is no any dimension type on your drawing.

[Anonymous]

That's the other thing that happened,

I did set up a lot o annotations and dim styles, but for some reason, I am not able to see them.

Please see the attached file with incorrect dimensions on the layout (ignoring the size of the dim text... its not editable right now..and I dont know why.. ) 

Appreciate your patience

[Anonymous]

ok,

here you go... this is the one with smaller text

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Here's the original that I was working on.. 

Which software was used to create this dwg-file?

Because when I open your drawing AutoCAD tells me that this file was not created by an Autodesk product.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Well, this was given to us in class, so I don't know what software was used to create it. 

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> this was given to us in class, so I don't know what software was used

And the dimension already existed when you have got the drawing?

I'm a bit lost, because you wrote about 2 dimensions, but I only see one (in the layout "dimensions"), where do I find the second dimension object with a different dim-value?

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

I apologize for all this confusion. 

We got this drawing in class and I started dimensioning the drawing on the same file. 

It was not working as it should so I hit the forums to take a look if anyone else  was having the same problem. In one of the posts, I found a few solutions which I tried to apply to my problem, but none of them worked. 

Then, I copied this drawing to another file, and the dimensioning worked.. 

that is what all these replies were about. 

And then I was asked to upload the original file, with the wrong dimension (the drawing has only one dimension as of now), and I did that, it is the problem-file which I uploaded last. 

Regards,

Aditi

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Then, I copied this drawing to another file, and the dimensioning worked.. 

Ok, that means you have got a solution and all is working now? If so please mark the post with the solution using the green button "ACCEPT AS SOLUTION".

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

sure. 

Thanks for your response. 

Regards,

Aditi

[rsf1970.rsf]

I had the same trouble today and found this post.  I appears that no one solved this problem.  I found that the cause is the system variable dimassoc.  If it is set to "1" it will give the dimension of distance on the paper, if set to "2" it will give the acutal model space dimension for the part.  

Hope this helps anyone having this issue.

[Anonymous]

rsf1970, that dimassoc command solved the issue for me!

[MartyWallace]

Thanks! It solved my problem.

[rsf1970.rsf]

Glad to help. I posted that years ago and it has been found by many so far
to help.