topic Re: Dimension Tool in Documentation

Dimension Tool

Anonymous — Mon, 22 May 2023 21:52:07 GMT

I'm having trouble with the dimension tool... it worked fine to mark arc dimensions throughout the drawing and then after it was saved and closed and opened back up the tool mysteriously stops working. This is happening to multiple people on or team. I've tried changing a few different settings but nothing seems to be working. Can someone help me troubleshoot?

Re: Dimension Tool

Barry Kelly — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:52:14 GMT

Ideally we would need to see a short video capture of you trying to use the tool to see if we can spot what the problem is.

Barry.

Re: Dimension Tool

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:14:40 GMT

Maybe this screenshot will help... You can see where we added other arc dimensions, but all of a sudden the tool will not work. When I click or highlight that other arc with the dimension tool nothing happens.

Re: Dimension Tool

Barry Kelly — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 01:03:30 GMT

Looks like you are trying to use the wrong dimension tool.

Barry.

Re: Dimension Tool

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:48:26 GMT

Barry, he is trying to dimension arcs, not radii, so the tool is fine.

ak,
Can you try something? What happens if you display only the layers where those arcs and dimensions are located and hide all other layers.
Can you dimension the arcs then? Maybe those arcs overlap some other elements and that causes the problem.
Also, are you sure those are real arcs? For example, elliptic arcs and splines cannot be dimensioned since they are not true arcs.

Re: Dimension Tool

Barry Kelly — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 01:29:44 GMT

LaszloNagy wrote:
Barry, he is trying to dimension arcs, not radii, so the tool is fine.

Yes of course, sorry.
I can see now.
For some reason I just focussed on the radii dimensions.

LaszloNagy wrote:
Also, are you sure those are real arcs? For example, elliptic arcs and splines cannot be dimensioned since they are not true arcs.

If the fill or slab was magic wanded from an ellipse with best match method, it will create a series of small arcs.
As Laszlo suggested, if that fill or slab overlaps the original ellipse, then you may have trouble dimensioning it, as it is trying to dimension the ellipse (which it can't do).

Barry.

Re: Dimension Tool

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:20:58 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions. Neither of those seemed to work though. I isolated one of the layers, which are walls, and tried to dimension those with no luck. The funny thing about it though is that some of the walls were dimensioned a few weeks ago using the same method and the tool worked fine. It seems to stop working, on this project and other projects we have, after we take a break from working on it. Any additional ideas?

Re: Dimension Tool

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:33:27 GMT

If you can upload a file somewhere or part of a file where the issue is present, I guess we could take a look and see if we can find out the cause.