I am currently dimensioning some floor plans and I have noticed that sometimes after a save or coming out of x-ref edit in place some dimensions will suddenly move sometimes just one node point sometimes both. I am talking about a 100m move not just slightly out of line!
The floor plan consists of an x-ref for the structure internal and external An X-ref for the stacks.
All partitions, electrics, doors, bathrooms furniture etc are directly drawn into this drawing so dimensions should be snapping to elements within the drawing occasionally it will be a junction between x-ref elements and non-xref (but still the end point of a line.) Dimassoc is set to 2 All dimensions are annotative and are in model space.
They are mostly drawn using the continue dimension command.It usually happens with 2 or 3 dims at a time but one time there were about 20 and I lost the will to live.
I am looking for a fix to the issue when scaling a view in MView from Paperspace all the dimensions in paper space move to outside the dinamic area of the border?
(in Inventor) sometimes I am beset with a problem that I want to edit my sketch but sketch members like line(s),circle(s) are moving to dimensions which I don't want. The sketch is moving. How can I overcome this problem,
I want to select part of an image with just one layer. Say I just flattened the image and have to move one part of. I select it with the rectangular select tool. It seems intuitive that I could then just move what I selected, but when I drag the selection, the selection itself moves without moving what is inside the selection.
If I then remember to click the move tool and try to move what's in the selection (seems to work sometimes, maybe when there's multiple layers?) the entire image moves.
The only way I can move part of the image over is if I make a selection and then cut it (ctrl X) then paste it.
How am I supposed to move part of the flattened image, is there a way I can set it to default to "When I select something, I can immediately drag that selected area around."
I was adding a lot of aligned dimensions to a drawing and some where along the way they changed from aligned dimensions to rotated dimensions, even in the same string of dimensions.
i am adding some new stuff to a print we got for my building. my issue is that when in model space i go to add a new dimension and the arrows are huge and the measurement is way off. the old dimension are smaller but say there length is greater. i have the dimstyle set right i believe. even when i take my new dimension and match properties the length is still wrong.
I export my ipt to an stl (and I make sure that I click on options before I convert and make sure the units are in mm) yet the units are still off. I am using Inventor 2013.
It seems like most people were able to solve their problem by clicking on options but even that seems like it is not working for me.
Im making a window that is 300” I divide it up into 9 equal parts autocad lt 2012 divides it up @ 31 1/8” that is 280 1/8”. The mullions are two inches wide and there is 10 of them that equals 20” the caulk joints are 3/8” there are two of them that equals 3/4".
Sometimes I like my dimensions to be in all inches ( 24" ) and most of the time I prefer feet/inched ( 2'-0" ) Where do I change this in the dimension style setting or properties?
I have a wall with gyp on both sides, I can not get the aec dimensions set up to only dimension the stud. It either gives me the overall thickness including the gyp or dimensions each individual component. What is the trick to achieving my goal or is it not possible.
How to round down dimensions. I see some topics with writing LISP codes to do it but I have Autocad LT and those cant use LISP codes right? Ive also been looking into the Round off variable in the Primary units for the dimension style but its a little confusing. What I want to do is just round down my dimension at the given precision.
Lets say I have my precision set to .000 (even though I may have dimensions with .00) I want my dimension of 2.875500 to round down to 2.875 and not up to 2.876 then I also have a dimension of 2.90952929 and I want that to round down to 2.909 and I can not find a way of getting both of these to round down with the same setting on the same dimension style. Basically I just want to truncate my dimensions.
i want to dimension a steel beam and i want to use a "rd"(running dimension) i'm using asd and autocad 2011 and i can't find how to use this command or tool i'm tryng to duplicate a drawing(drawing made with tekla) but im pretty sure we can do it with cad tekla shows the runnig dimension and text on top of the arrow.it's a short arrow that measures from the base point(rd) it's not the whole dimension line like normally dimensioning
I was given a drawing and asked to scale it down. Once I did everything scaled as it should except for the dimensions. The dimensions did not change. What gives?
I have some aligned dimensions in model space - they look ok, text is oriented according to WCS. Also I have some viewports with UCS (I used commands UCS, PLAN) where dimensions look wrong, text is not oriented correctly. Is it possible to "update" dimension in viewport to orient text as in model space?
Programmatically created dims in viewports oriented as in model space, not considering current UCS.
I have a drawing that has dimensions in inches and I need them to read in centimeters for a client i am working with. I tried changing the units but that did not work.
I've just downloaded the latest AutoCAD for Mac and I'm trying to add a dimension to a 2d drawing. When I do so with the DIMLINEAR command by picking the start/end points then the distance away from the line, all I get is three lines, there are no arrow heads or text showing the distance. I looked at the properties inspector and arrow heads are enabled.
I'm working in 3D to create models but to get the dimensions right I'm creating the center lines and then sweeping the shape around it to form the solid.
I've created an arc in one plane, however I now want to 'bend' the arc around a cylinder. I've attached a drawing to make it all a bit clearer, I want to bend that arc around the green cylinder.
I'm currently making some drawings of a piping system for an oil rigg process system I made in Inventor. I was now supposed to draw an Isometric drawing of some pipes, but i don't think i knew what isometric meant so i made it in 3D. So i made a full xyz 3d drawing instead of drawing 3d on an xy axis. Still, i don't think there will be problems because i'm only supposed to take pictures of this and add it to a repport.
The problem i have is adding dimensions to the lines on the z-axis, they keeb gluing to the xy-axis. It's probably a stupid question, but I just can't seem figure it out. I added a picture of it. Now if i made an ISOmetric drawing i would not have had this problem, hope i don't have to start again.
I have made a few cabinets (in 3d) on Autocad, but I was just wondering if there is a function that can tell you how large each of the pieces are in each direction (Have originally drawn in 2d and then extruded). Either each piece individually or a group summary.
Even if I go to the properties of each piece, it only gives me the extruded height (i.e. only a value in the Z-direction, gives 0 in the X and Y).
Is there any way to do this apart from the normal linear dimension function?
I have a problem when plot to pdf with this particular layout the dimensions shift out of place. Tried apply scale factor to layout dimensions only but no luck. This doesn't happen in other layouts. First screen shot is layout with dimensions in place, the second is the pdf and the dimensions are shifted or out of scale.
I am trying to convert into 3D with the given dimensions. It seems like an easy part to make but I am not sure which drawing is correct. I have drawing-1 and drawing-2.
I was sent the floor plan of a building and I am drawing the rcp. I am trying to add some dimensions but they are upside down. The ucs is at world and mirrtext is at 0. I don't know what to do now!
How (if possible) i can change my settings so that if im working on a particular layer, if i draw a dimension it will automatically be on my preferred dimensions layer and not the one im working with? this was pretty straight forward on MicroStation.
When I go to open up any of my files, any dimesion that has an "8" in it, is automatically changed to a different text font. It just happens to every "8" and no other number or letter. I have to individual change them on all my files. How can I fix this? It just started doing this today.
My Coworker has an issue with dimensions disappearing while she is working on completing her drawing. We have tried using Audit..did not work, we thought it was maybe the anno visible tab did not work. She thinks that she did nothing out of the ordinary while working on the drawing. See attached drawing. The drawing is after all but a couple dimensions have disapperaed.
