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Dimension text no longer showing?

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Message 1 of 14
Anonymous
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Dimension text no longer showing?

With sketch dimensions, it used to be that my dimensions were accompanied by their associated numeric figures, the numbers, and these could be grabbed and moved etc. like the dimensioning lines themselves. Fine. For the last few weeks my figures haven't been showing up, but the lines do show normally. Cant find a control for this. Please see attached image. Any suggestions  please?

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Message 2 of 14
ahreum.ryu
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

Sorry to hear that.. 

I found out similar issue here.  but it has already fixed in 2016 June 22. 

Do you mind sharing your OS information?  The problem was happened in OS 10.11.3.

In the meanwhile, I'm going to find the other way. 

 

Many thanks,

Message 3 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: ahreum.ryu

I am moving my responses to the other thread here where the issue was first raised, hopefully that is correct protocol here!

Message 4 of 14
Beyondforce
in reply to: Anonymous

Ok, I hope they will a solution for that soon!

Ben.

Ben Korez
Owner, TESREG.com & Fusion 360 NewbiesPlus
TESREG - Fusion 360 Hardware Benchmark
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Message 5 of 14
Beyondforce
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

Since hiding dimensions inside a sketch is impossible right now, then my only guess it's a local problem. I'm not sure if this problem happens as well in a new file/sketch, but I will start with Clear user cache data.

Please let me know, if it didn't help!

 

Best Regards / Ben
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Message 6 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Beyondforce

clearing user data cache did not fix.

Message 7 of 14
SallyYang
in reply to: Anonymous

Are you using the default font of Mac?  Would you please try to set your font back to Arial and see if the issue is still existing?

Regards,
Sally


Sally Yang
Software QA Engineer
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 8 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: SallyYang

Arial was NOT installed on my system for some reason. Perhaps it was deleted when I got rid of every last trace of Microsoft Office not so long ago. I shut down Fusion, copied the Apple Arial fonts from another Apple machine into /library/fonts/, restarted Fusion, and now my dimensions are displayed correctly!

 

Funny thing: in Fusion->Preferences->Drawing, Arial was selected as the default font in the greyed-out drop down. When I activated the dropdown by allowing override, the Drop down reconfigured and went blank. So it LOOKED like Arial was set OK, but it actually wasn't even there, just the drop-down's memory of it once being there. So when the team gets time, a little UI fix suggestion would be to update the greyed-out default font menu on Fusion startup if the selected default font is not found to be properly installed.

 

Thank you Sally Yang for your solution!

Message 9 of 14
SallyYang
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks for your quickly response and the feedback about the issues in preferences. I will file a defect to track it.

Regards,
Sally


Sally Yang
Software QA Engineer
Fusion 360 Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 10 of 14
aldoDYWFP
in reply to: SallyYang

Hello, I´m having the same issue but was not solved as said to change the default font, it was actually in Arial and I changed it to several but the result was the same, I do have installed the Arial Font... at the beginning was working fine but all of a sudden it stopped working.Screen Shot 2018-05-07 at 6.05.35 PM.png

 

Even if I run an analysis the messages and results are fontless. 

 

By the way, I'm new at Fusion 360 

Message 11 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: aldoDYWFP

I am having the exact same issue on my Mac as well.

 

I have Arial installed. I have also tried changing the font.

 

Screenshot 2019-12-21 at 10.31.55.png

Message 12 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Is there a fix to this?

 

I've upgraded to Catalina and the sketch dimensions are no longer appearing. Have tried flushing the user cache, changing the font, confirming that Arial is installed and turning off the graphic optimisations but they are resolutely invisible. Any other things to try?

Message 13 of 14
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Managed to fix it myself after finding this similar ticket. Arial is installed on macOS Catalina but is found in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/. Copying the Arial fonts from that directory to /Library/Fonts/ then restarting Fusion 360 brought back my dimensions!

Message 14 of 14
LarsRey
in reply to: Anonymous

Well suddenly I am in the same boat. No measures. Copied the Arial Fonts over to /Library/Fonts, no difference. Still only arrows and no measure. I am running Monterey on an iMac.

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