Dimension Text Won't Center between Dim Lines

[Anonymous]

II give up.  I can't get my dimension text to appear as I want.   I want the text center between the dimension lines with a break between the dim lines.  No matter what I change on DIMSTYLE I can't get this to happen.  See attached picture.  I would like to have the style on the right.  But I can only get the style on the left.

Please help!  I'm going bonkers.

Blake

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[Anonymous]

DIMSTYLE

TEXT TAB

UNDER TEXT PLACEMENT MAKE SURE 'VERTICAL' = 'CENTERED'

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[zph]

Come on, dude!

If it were that simple, don't you think he would have found that?

And to note, I am having the same issue as the OP.  I've attached a screenshot.

You can see that I have set the text to 'centered' and yet the problem still pursists.

One detail I'd like to note (perhaps it can help shed light on this issue), when I delete the dimensions and purge the drawing, the only objects that show up in the purge menu are two blocks:  D*, D* (* being random numbers).  I purge these but it doesn't seem to do anything to solve the problem.

Any help from someone a bit more knowledgeable on this topic would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[crsmith1]

Try typing in DIMTVP and set to 0. Then select dimension update.

[Wheelie22]

I have it with ACADE 2012

The top 1 centers if you change 1 node !

Better Never than Late !

How can I get the bottom 1 to change to auto center to ?

[steve216586]

DIMTAD & DIMTVP both set to 0.000.

[Wheelie22]

In our DWT I have DIMTAD = 1, DIMTPV = 0,0000 and I get a dimension that centers.

I have a trick to change the text override to empty.

-  select all dimensions

- do the properties (CTRL-1)

- text part

- change the Text override to nothing

But when I have this dimension line that does not center, the solution is draw to it again.

How can I change these wrong one's to auto center one's ?

[steve216586]

Wheelie22:

"I have a trick to change the text override to empty.

-  select all dimensions

- do the properties (CTRL-1)

- text part

- change the Text override to nothing"

Get rid of the override by deleting in the Dimstyle Manager. It should be right under your current Dimstyle. (See attached) It may be an override setting in your template or even a routine which changes the system variable values at start-up. In that case you may want to delete and then re-save as your "working" .dwt template. 

Wheelie22 this isn't directed towards you but I would like to make a general statement about "problems" like this one in general.

I don't know how non-standard or default settings like this ever get changed when a user only desires the default or standard result? I wish when users have problems like this, they would identify how the System Variable might have been changed from default in the first place. I could understand settings being changed when a user wants a result which requires customization. This problem, and many others just like it, is clearly a result of someone changing a setting or system variable and not knowing what that certain variable setting causes as a result of changing from the default setting. This never ceases to make me marvel at the expertise of a user. (Maybe not the user whom asked the question but someone in their office or another office where the user may have received the drawing.)

[Ncampos7157 · Accepted solution]

Just figured this one out. Type dimedit and select/type home. This places the dim text at its default position, which centers it.

[Andrew.Tymon]

You beauty worked a treat

I,m self taught so this fix greatly appreciated 🙂

[MCL63PJ7KD]

Did anyone figure this out? None of the above remedies works for me.

[pendean]

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@MCL63PJ7KD wrote:
Did anyone figure this out? None of the above remedies works for me.

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