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Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:49:18 GMT

Dimensions and Levels don't stick when saved.

I dimension a plan

I go to Options

then Project Preferences

Then Dimensions Set as Feet and Fractional Inches

Then None for Fractions

then 1'-0"

Save and create by Name "M2"

Now I do into mile file to work and it will for a bit,

then I plot and find the fractions are back. I have to do the same process and it works again for a bit but reverts back to fractions

I select the "M2" and that works for a bit but then the file reverts back.

This has been happening in both 26 and 27.

Pulling my hair out and there id not much to pull.

Now I close the files and reopen.

First the Dimensions are not showing as I have to add levels that were previously showing. ( Ctrl-L "Show All" do a Ctrl-Save as I assume this will save what you see. AND my dimentions go back to fractions.

I File save all the time and dimentions dont stick.

And Levels don't stick.

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:24:02 GMT

Dimension settings are part of Views. All (most) work should be done in well-defined views... done once for a template, and you're set for all future (similar) projects. It sounds like you're using View Points some times and Views others.. which will result in all settings being switched to those of the last View activated.

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC27_Help%2F140_UserInterfaceDialogBoxes%2F140_UserInterfaceDialogBoxes-68.htm&rhsearch=Views&rhhlterm=Views&rhsyns=%20

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:52:01 GMT

I go to the same view over and over and update to what I want and it keeps losing that data even though I have saved it.

Just does not make sense.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:53:26 GMT

Karl still having the same issue.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:22:03 GMT

When you go into the dimension preference settings, "M2" is still set exactly as you want?

That is not changing there is it?

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:30:48 GMT

Have you set your views to use the "M2" dimension style?

Not just changing the style you are using on screen, but by actually changing it in the view settings.

Barry.

Betreff: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

runxel — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:26:16 GMT

It could be a bug too. I have this issue with one particular Dimension style in my files. If a save a view with it it automatically reverts to another style. Nothing works, not redefining with right-click, nor in the view settings etc.

Only thing that helped was to delete it and recreating it.

There is something very fishy going on with Dimension styles.... – after deleting it was still selectable (which then lead to AC crashing).

After creating a new style and hitting ok on that dialog the current style will still report as "Custom" as well. So yeah, something's broken; it's just that people do not tend to make new styles all the time but once when creating a template, never to be touched again. Probably not really on GS' radar.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:30:09 GMT

I can't say that I am happy with this, It there a way to apply to all drawings.

My setting would apply to all plans and elevations, and Building Sections

How to you update a template?

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:55:51 GMT

@Eric Milberger wrote:

I can't say that I am happy with this,

Why not?

This is the way it is supposed to work.

When you create a view, you should be setting all of these settings as to how you want the view to appear.

It is that view that you then place on the layouts as a drawing.

With the correct settings, you are guaranteed that your drawings on the layouts will display as you want them.

@Eric Milberger wrote:

It there a way to apply to all drawings.

My setting would apply to all plans and elevations, and Building Sections

How to you update a template?

You can select more than one view in the view map list at the same time,

Don't select the plain folders - they don't have settings (cloned folders with the black arrows are OK).

Then open the settings and change them all at once.

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

gotphish001 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:50:12 GMT

You use clone folders for your template.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:30:51 GMT

This is already established in hte seed file - At least it should be. This is very low level minimum stuff.

Id fire an employee if he did not set up the basics. Graphisoft can do better. Just plain lazyness.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Wed, 21 May 2025 00:34:46 GMT

I am not quite sure I am understanding your issue exactly.

The dimension style (M2 in your case) should stay exactly as you set it - it should never change unless you change it.

The views in the view map (not the view points in the project map), have settings where you tell the view what dimension style to use.

You place those views on the layouts as drawings and they will always use that dimension style you have set in the view settings.

You can manually swap the dimension style you are currently using, but this will not affect the views or the drawings on the layouts, only what you currently see on screen.

As soon as you re-open that view or publish the layout, it will reset to use the M2 dimension style (or what ever you have set) for that view.

Every view has its own individual settings.

You can select more than one view and change them all at the same time.

When creating a new view, you choose the settings you want.

If the view is automatically created as a part of a cloned folder, then it will adopt the settings of the parent folder.

If this is not what you are experiencing, I would be curious to know why it is different for you.

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:52:06 GMT

I want all views at all times to have the same settings for dimensions. ALL dimensions ft and inches

and then a setting for details But all plans and elevations are the same for all projects.

I set it up to works fine - I save it and - I close and open back up and it is back to the wrong settings.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:07:16 GMT

I wonder if you are changing the settings in the dimension styles and then just saying OK.

That will only be a temporary change as the dimension style becomes 'Custom'.

You never want anything to be 'Custom' in Archicad.

If you make a change to the dimension style, you must 'Store As' the style you want to change.

Then it will be a permanent change for that style.

Any view using that style will now have the settings you want.

Change the settings > store as > all of the views using that style will instantly update to the new settings.

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

gotphish001 — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:37:10 GMT

Barry,

I've had the issue with dimension setttings being glitchy in my template. I'll be in a floor plan with my 1/8 feet and inches setting and dims show as fractional inches which is wrong. I'll flip the setting to my 1/8th inches fractional setting and then back to my original 1/8 feet and inches settings and now it shows feet and inches even though I didn't change the dimension settings or even open them. I simply flipped styles and it was fixed. This is a fairly common issue I see.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Eric Milberger — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:44:37 GMT

Barry - that was already done and did not work.

The solution is you have to set this on each and every view or drawing - odd

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:53:03 GMT

If the info bar at the bottom of the window is clearly showing the correct dimension style is chosen, but the dimensions are displaying differently, then this is an issue.

Is it every file or just this one?

This is something I would be discussing with your local Archicad support team.

I don't work in imperial measures, but in metric, I have never had an issue with the precision changing by itself.

Is this a teamwork file by any chance?

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

Barry Kelly — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:04:28 GMT

The dimension style can change at any time, especially if you are going from view to view with different styles.

But when you first open a view from the view map, does it say it is using 'M2' style in the info bar at the bottom of the window, but shows a completely different dimension style?

The view should open as it was set.

If it doesn't, then there is something wrong and you should get your local support to look at the file.

I don't use imperial measures, and maybe all of those options for the precision of feet, inches and fractions/decimals are complicating things.

In metric it is simply a single unit and a decimal precision, so I have never had any issues.

So maybe some other users that use imperial measures have come across this issue and may know a solution, or know if it is an issue.

Barry.

Re: Dimensions keep reverting to odd dimensions,

gotphish001 — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:18:04 GMT

It was in every file, so it was in my template. Yes it was showing incorrectly for the view. If I toggled the dim setting to another preset and then back to whatever was set in the view settings, it would fix it. I haven't needed to do it in awhile, but I recently redid the my entire template to 28. 28 is so different I redid a lot of stuff. I probably fixed it.