Vertical Dimensions not Adjusting to text

[sandroVJ8CB]

Hi, 

I am using version 2022 right now and I have been dealing with this issue for years. It is very minor but it actually causes some potentially problematic issues. 

Within certain dimensions, I like to add text in the same textbox as the measurement to describe what the dimension is showing. In all vertical measurements, the "Dim line 2" will not shrink to fit the text, it will stay the same length which results in a line through the middle of my text. 

The only way around this that I have found is to input a value into the "Text rotation". Obviously I do not want to rotate the text so I usually input 0.01. For some reason this makes "Dim Line 2" shrink to fit the text. 

This has been a minor inconvenience over the years however I recently discovered some of my drawings are now very slightly off square which has made the Trim/Extend commands useless in some cases and could cause some dimensional errors down the road. In these particular drawings I must have used the dimension line in some way while drawing, forgetting its slightly rotated. 

Any help is appreciated. I have posted about this before and Autodesk got involved but never returned to me with a solution. If this is fixed in a recent version i will download immediately! 

[pendean]

Visuals please: screenshot of what you want vs what you get would be good, sharing a DWG with those in it would be even better, then we can all deep dive into your DIMSTYLE settings and more.

[sandroVJ8CB]

Hi @pendean , 

thanks for responding. I just attached a drawing showing the difference. the "What I want" is rotated by .01 which should not be necessary. 

[dmfrazier]

Besides the deliberate text rotation you noted, the only other significant difference I can see between the two dimensions (by looking at Properties) is that one is associative (the one that behaves) and the other is not.

[dmfrazier]

One other thing I notice is that in your dimstyle you have "\X" as the dim suffix. This appears to be what is causing the "shift" when the text is forced to horizontal on a vertical dimension. Removing the suffix resolves the issue (but it also moves your alternate units value to the side of the primary units value, which you probably don't want).

[sandroVJ8CB]

Thank you for trying to help. I believe Associative simply refers to the dimension being able to change as I change the length of that line. Since I just copied that dimension over to another line to show the difference, the other one lost its associativity.

[sandroVJ8CB]

that is interesting. I havent really played with the dimstyle, I originally just created a standard text style for all my drawings. I selected the button under "Placement" for "Below Primary Value" in the alternate units. maybe this is what changes the dimstyle to "/X"...if so, this is how I want my dimensions to show, so there's not much I can do about this.