Trouble with Dimensioning

[Anonymous]

I'm using Revit Architecture 2015. I'm changing the size of a component, and the easiest way that I know to do that is by annotating the distances and then click on the component and changing the text in the annotation. However, when I change one, it changes the other dimension. So I lock one, then the other, and then when I go on to change the third line, it gives my a message saying "Constraints are not satisfied."

I'll have a screenshot, but if someone has a fix, please tell me and rather soon.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

You often don't need to put on dimensions, just select the element you want to adjust and use the temporary dimensions that appear with it selected.  You can drag these around to snap to the geometry you want to measure from / to.

I'm struggling to tell exactly what I'm looking at in your image - are those walls you've selected?  If you have more than one element selected that might be where your problem is coming from.

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous

From the image; I think you have Loaded and/or in-placed a component in your Project/Model Environment...I am not sure if this is true but that's all that one can tell from that image

• My first thought would be; if it is a parametrized component; you do not change/modify it's dimensions using annotations! You do that by editing its parameters. Select component>go to properties>edit type
• When a component is parametrized and you lock the annotation strings as you did; you then would be killing the defined parameters/formulas HENCE you get the error "constraints not satisfied" I assume there is a formula driving the length of one wall with respect to the second (perpendicular to it) if you lock one the formula simply wont work because it can not change the dimension of the locked wall as it is supposed to do.

You might consider locking the component to an element in the model then inputing the desired values in the component's parameters

[Anonymous]

Thanks for those who replied, but I managed to fix it this morning. I was trying to align the desk with the wall, but that's fixed now.