Numbers of measure are not displayed / visible

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

today was the first day i have installed and worked with AutoCad.

I tried to copy the tutorial videos of AutoCad but unfortunately, when trying to measure an object, the problem arose, on which I already hang all day.

The value of the dimensioning are not visible or not displayed.

I looked in the forum with help from the search and tried kind of:

• to scale from one scale to a other scale
• to change/activate other Layers
• different versions of dimensioning (BEM, BEMLINEAR)
• create greater Object as 1000 mm

I have a brandnew installation from AutoCad 2017 "Studentversion" and all available Updates are installed.

p.s. Since I am not so sure in English that I can be sure everything has been explained, I have attached a picture for a better understanding:

[Patchy]

Rule no. 1

Don't use layer DEFPOINTS unless you know it's what you want.

and is your layer 0  Frozen?

[Anonymous]

No, i have tried many times and with different settings.

but the value is not shown up.

It is the standard layer, i tried only the stuff from the videos and there is nothing compare to see.

[TheCADnoob]

MEASURE =/= DIMENSION these are two different things. Measure will give you values, Dimension will create elements on your drawing. 

If you are dimensioning in model space and the dimension letter height is much smaller than the scale it would appear as if it were not there. Have you tried changing the text height in the dimension properties window?

[Anonymous]

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TheCADnoob schrieb:

MEASURE =/= DIMENSION these are two different things. Measure will give you values, Dimension will create elements on your drawing. 

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ok thats a failure because my bad english, sry about this. I mean MEASURE and not Dimension 😞

and the value of the MEASURE is not shown up.

Edit: So i fixed this misunderstanding^^

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TheCADnoob schrieb:

Have you tried changing the text height in the dimension properties window?

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no i haven't because i had no idea to look at this...

[Patchy]

Use DISTANCE or LIST command or this:

Measure to find length is not a command to use

[Anonymous]

ok, but why is this way shown in the tutorial video and it works - but on my version it dosn't?

[Anonymous]

ok, now im confused. I used the functions in the red corner to make my measures:

is it a other term and i didn't know the right word for this? In this state sry  😕

[pendean]

It may be time you asked your teacher for some hands-on tutorials and guidance 🙂

[Patchy]

Looks like Dimensioning icon.

Attach your drawing.

Could be that your dimstyle is not the right scale so it can be off the screen.

[TheCADnoob · Accepted solution]

In this screencast i use both commands. i use measure, then i use dimension. Then i change properties of the dimension in the properties window. 

[Anonymous]

press f12