Ordinate Dimension Scale Problem

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I'm using the latest version of AutoCAD LT 2022, but I had this same problem happen on LT 2019. 

All of my drawing is on model space but we like to dimension on paper space. When I scale my drawing to fit one of our templates, some of the dimensions are scaled incorrectly. This doesn't happen every time but seems to be a random occurrence.

I have attached a PDF of a drawing I have this issue on, the dimension that is incorrect I have also placed a regular linear dimension to show the scale difference. You can see the plate on the right hand side of the page is correct, but the enclosure dimension on the left is scaled with the paper space scale (1/2). Not sure what would cause this, but any help is appreciated!

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the primary problem of dimensioning in paperspace. And why most of us do not do that, and adopted annotative text/dimstyles etc.

Your issue are two fold that you always need to address manually, changing versions is not going to resolve it: you may not be correctly snapping to objects in your viewport (why you lose some but not all dimensions like you describe), and you always have to use DIMREASSOCIATE command to fix those dimensions when you do a resizing like that.

HTH

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

It may have been a snapping issue. I deleted the dimension and replaced it a couple times and eventually got the correct measurement. As for DIMREASSOCIATE, I'm not familiar with that command but I will dig into it a little deeper.

I'll also bring up to the rest of the group that dimensioning in paper space isn't a common practice, I wasn't aware of that myself.