Text Height of Dimension Will Not Change when setting Properties

[ernestDG3ZU]

Is this a bug or a feature??

I can change the text height of leaders but not dimensions.

The properties table accepts the value but the text height on the dimension does not change.

 

[pendean]

Greetings @ernestDG3ZU 

You chose to hardcode the text height used in STYLE command, so the program is doing what you asked it to do

If that cannot change to 0 for whatever reason... then you have to be inside the editor to change that (double-click the dimtext or use TEXTEDIT command)

HTH

[ernestDG3ZU]

Dimensions

Text height will not change no matter what I enter.

Same problem on another computer with another user.

Seemed to just start happening today.  Last week everything worked fine.

Please advise, thank you in advance.

[ernestDG3ZU]

Sorry i do not understand what you mean.  All I want to do is change the height of the text.  Why does this need to be so intricate?  

[ernestDG3ZU]

And change it in that dialog still does not change the text height.

[cadffm]

Your STYLE is not set to height=0, in this case you can't controle the dimension text height in properties.

Styrt STYLE command, change Height in "Standard" style to 0

You can edit the dimension text height as you tried it before now.

[ernestDG3ZU]

I tried both modify and override and the option is blocked.

How can I change the text height for all dimensions without need to remake the drawing???

I used to be able to change one dimension using the properties window, then use match properties, and change the others.

It worked until last week.

Suddenly this week it does not work any more.

I made no settings changes that I am aware of.

Should I try reinstalling the software?

[user181]

The text style you are using in your dimension style has a height of 0.08 assigned to it. So that's what the dimension text height will be.  If you use the STYLE command and select standard and change the height to 0 you can then change each dimension individually. 

[ernestDG3ZU]

Thank you.

I try what you said:

It appears to work.  Thank you.

I still  do not understand why.   I have NEVER ONCE went into the STYLE command window.  How do these things change on their own???

[cadffm]

>>"I still do not understand why"

It is designed this way (and documented)

Open DIMSTYLE dialog, EDIT your dimstyle, switch to tab TEXT and pos the cursor at the Textheight box,

wait a second and read the popup help.

Or in program help[F1]

Text Height

Sets the height of the current dimension text style. (DIMTXT system variable)

If the text style specified on this tab has a fixed text height, that height overrides the text height set here. If you want to set the height for dimension text here, make sure the height of the text style is set to 0. See the STYLE command for information about setting text height for text styles.

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>>"How do these things change on their own"

It didn't change by itself. 100% not

[cadffm]

doublepost https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-forum/text-height-of-dimension-will-not-change-when-settin...

[cadffm]

Doublepost https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-forum/text-height-of-dimension-will-not-change-when-settin...

[pendean]

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@ernestDG3ZU wrote:

...It appears to work... How do these things change on their own???

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Nothing ever changes on it's own: but you may be setting yourself up for these kinds of issues if you only call styles (dimension, text, mleaders) "STANDARD" then find yourself in other people's drawings (or someone else' template, or even the default blank DWG file that was set up that way) who also do the mistake of calling everything "standard" but change settings.

TLDR: stop calling your styles STANDARD and be in total control all the time.

HTH