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Extra Dimension Styles Keep Appearing in Model

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steezzen
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Extra Dimension Styles Keep Appearing in Model

Our model has dozens of duplicate dimension styles. They are all idenified with just a single number, and I can't seem to trace from where they originated. In addition, I can't purge these types from the project since Revit sees them as used, and "select all in project" doesn't work. I've looked in our families, gorups and detail views/components for these dimensions, but I can't seem to find them. Our template does not start with these dimension types. This has happened on four of our projects that I know of, and I can't seem to find what the unifying problem is. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone know what I can do to remove these dimension styles and prevent them from coming back in? See the attached image for what our dimension style type selector looks like.

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Anonymous
als Antwort auf: steezzen

I don't know where the dimension types are coming from, but I can suggest a process for finding out. In a COPY or DETACHED COPY of your file, in an organized manner, start deleting everything in the file. After each logical grouping of elements, check to see if the offending dimension types can now be purged.

 

I would probably do it like this:

 

Delete: dwgs, revit links, all groups
purge

Delete: all annotations
purge

Delete: all legends
purge

Delete: all drafting views
purge

Delete: all non-system families-doors, windows, equipment
purge

Delete: all system families- walls, floors, roofs, stairs
purge

Delete: all visible elements in a 3d view
purge

Delete: all views on sheets
purge

Delete: all sheets
purge

Delete: all schedules
purge

Delete: all views
purge

 

Somewhere along the way, the dimension types should be purgable. When you find the group, break it into halves and do the same thing. Repeat until you have isolated the culprit(s).

 

Once you have found the source, it may or may not be obvious what the solution is, but you can probably take it from there.

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steezzen
als Antwort auf: Anonymous

Thanks for the response Peter. Once I have a spare moment I'll give this a shot and see if I can make something of it.

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hworrell
als Antwort auf: steezzen

I'm having this same issue - did you ever figure out where this was coming from? There are also additional arrowheads 1,2,3, etc.

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steezzen
als Antwort auf: steezzen

Thank you for reminding me about this, hworrell! I completely forgot about this issue- can't believe it was six months ago already.

 

Seeing your posted prompted me to finally try to figure this out. What I learned is certain families in our model were to blame. From a detached copy, I started deleted many of the families that I knew we imported later, i.e. families not in the template file, and afterwards the available purge list grew by quite a lot. I also managed to find one such family- I opened it up, and sure enough, there was a dimension type "206" in there.

 

But, I was not able to find out how the dimensions got into the families in the first place. I certainly did not create them intentionally, but I can't seem to replicate what might generate them.

 

So unfortunately, it looks like the only solution is a preemptive one (unless you want to go through every family in a project and purge it). When you make any kind of new family, you have to make sure it does not contain any of the extra dimension styles and remove them before you import it into the project. I tried to replicate this by make several new kinds of families and importing them to a template file, but I couldn't get the extra types to appear, so I don't know what causes it.

 

I'm still working on the same project that caused me to write this post, but once I move on to another I'll see if this issue keeps occuring and hopefully find out what causes it.

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arunc
als Antwort auf: steezzen

I have the same problem, and have identified a legend and a few drafting views which have no dimension styles are the culprits. Not sure how that is possible, maybe someone has a explanation.

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jsarratori
als Antwort auf: arunc

Help, same problem!  Have HUNDREDS of these rogue dimensions that do not show up to be purged and there are no instances in the project.  See attached screenshot 

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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: jsarratori

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