Cannot see dimensions!

Anonymous · ‎11-21-2016

Hello everybody,

I am using the student version of Autocad 2015 on my mac. Whenever I open a drawing, I cannot see the dimensions. I can see the lines associated with the dimensions but the actual numbers are not displayed. I have attached a screenshot of the drawing. Please help!!

Thanks,

Ak

maxim_k · ‎11-21-2016

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Hi Ak,

You need to fine tune text height in the current dimension style:

Use menu Format -> Dimension Style,

Than select "Modify" from "gear" menu:

Go to the "Text" tab and set text height:

Note that in order to be able to set text height in the Dim Style window, Text Style which you use in this dimension style should have zero height.

Maxim

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Anonymous · ‎11-21-2016

Hi Maxim,

Thanks for your reply. I have followed the steps and have set the text height to 3.5 but I still cannot see the dimension text.

Thanks,

Ak

maxim_k · ‎11-22-2016

Have you verified the height of the text in the Text Style (menu Format -> Text Style) used in Dimension Style?
It should be 0 (zero).

You can attach the problem drawing here, I'll look at it/

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Anonymous · ‎11-22-2016

Hi Maxis,

I have set it to zero but still no luck. Please find attached the drawing.

Thanks,

Ak

maxim_k · ‎11-22-2016

When I open your drawing I am able to see dimension text:

I also noticed that you are using SHX font with additional Asian set - intecad.shx, which I don't have on my machine, so I substituted it with bigfont.shx:

Maybe something is wrong with this extended font on your machine.

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