Dimension tool not working

[Anonymous]

The dimension tool works fine for me on a new ArchiCAD file set up from the Archicad17 standard template.

However, just tried adding dimensions for the construction set to a model I've been working on for a while & nothing works after selecting the tool: no dimension points, no double-click to pull up the hammer cursor, no nada.

Tried turning on all the layers, restarting the computer / ArchiCAD but with the same result - nada in my file, but fine in a new document. Problem is clearly with my file - maybe some setting that needs changing?

Any suggestions gratefully received...

Duncan

[Barry Kelly]

OK that all looks good.

So now if you click where the hammer is, you should get your dimension.

But as you say you are not getting the placement lines as you choose where you want to place the dimension.

I am not sure why you would not be seeing these lines, but you do see the hammer cursor.

Actually I just had a thought.

The walls you are dimensioning are not exactly vertical.

I have exaggerated the problem here.

You can see one wall is not going to dimension, because it is not perpendicular to the dimension.

Barry.

[rxth_1212]

hay there,

i ve got the same problem. but as far as i can see do all the walls have a angel of 90 degrees. in the whole document i can put the right dimensions, just a spicific part not.  The specific place at the bottom betwee A and |100|. i get the placement lines and the little hammer. do you have any sugestions?

[Barry Kelly]

So, you click on the side of the walls as I show here.

You should get a round dimension market (target) on each side of the wall.

Then you double lick to bring up the hammer and place the dimension.

If you only get one dimension (the 100mm) then the walls are not vertical or parallel to each other.

See my previous post.

They only have to be off by the smallest amount not to work.

Barry.

[MendoPermaculture]

I'm having a separate dimension issue, but I think it falls under this same thread title...

My linear dimension tool will not allow me to snap to a parallel reference line. This only happens in files that are started in the template I use (thanks Shoegnome!), not in the files I collaborate with another firm in.

In other words, I can click on two points with the dimension tool, double click to finish the string, and then with the hammer showing my witness lines, I do not get the option showing " '//' set dimension parallel to". I only set my dimensions in the x-y directions. I CAN, set the dimension "parallel to" afterwards with the pet pallette, but previously I could do this while placing the dimension.

Any clues? Thanks in advance.

[Barry Kelly]

Do you have the correct geometry method set in the dimension tool?

Barry.

[jl_lt]

With our proposed dimension tool, all of these trials and tribulations with clicks would be a thing of the past

[Barry Kelly]

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@jl_lt wrote:

With our proposed dimension tool, all of these trials and tribulations with clicks would be a thing of the past

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What proposed dimension tool would that be?

Do you have a link to something to explain?

Barry.

[MendoPermaculture]

Barry Kelly for the WIN!!! Yes, it was exactly what you showed above. Same answer as earlier in this thread, "Geometry Method", except I was missing the drop down option.

Thank you!