When I scale to 0.001, how do I scale annotative dims and leaders?

[Anonymous]

When I scale down a design drawing from mm to metres, scale to 0.001, annotative dims and multi leaders stay full size, I've tried dimscale and dimension style - modify - scale, set to 0.001, but it doesn't alter the mass of dims

[WarrenGeissler]

How EXACTLY are you "scaling" your drawing down .001?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

>> When I scale down a design drawing from mm to metres ... <<

scaling drawings is NOT recommended and this will be obvious when use Dist command to find that you will have problems specially when precision is high . !! DIMSCALE and DIMLFAC system variables will help ( make sure that your used dimension style is set current ) . if not fix please try to attache here a CAD dwg sample for testing . 

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Hi Warren,

Thanks for your reply. I use the scale command, specify base point on the
drawing, then specify scale factor, I use 0.001 as the scale. But I have just
tried a few things and found the solution.

When the drawing has been scaled from mm to metres, the dims, (points, lines or
text) will remain original size and overpowering the scaled, reduced model,
select one of these original entities, right click, select similar, then open
the properties box, in the misc section select dim style, select annotative.
This makes the dims relative to the new scale, i.e 3000 (mm) is now displayed as
3.000 (metres). At this point I can also make other adjustments, arrow
types/sizes, text height and offsets.

Thanks,

Bruceybee

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

SOLUTION:

When the drawing has been scaled from mm to metres, the dims, (points, lines or
text) will remain original size and overpowering the scaled, reduced model,
select one of these original entities, right click, select similar, then open
the properties box, in the misc section select dim style, select annotative.
This makes the dims relative to the new scale, i.e 3000 (mm) is now displayed as
3.000 (metres). At this point I can also make other adjustments, arrow
types/sizes, text height and offsets.


Bruceybee

[WarrenGeissler]

I see now. I got a little confused when you mentioned leaders (Mleaders are not supposed to act this way). But dimensions will act up until you set them to annotative and set the appropriate annotative scale on them. Good job figuring it out!

[WarrenGeissler]

Oh - and you can mark your own post as a SOLUTION so others will see this is solved.