Major dimension Issue

[Anonymous]

I thought I'd share this to see if anyone else knows about this and see if it's happening to them.

Dimensioning: I draw a straight line. Using the "x-y direction" setting of the dimension tool, I try and dimension the line, but all I get is an option for an angled dimension. See attached screenshot. It's very annoying not to be able to dimension a darn straight line!!!!!! Yes, you can still do it using the "any direction" setting, but that's not the point...

I just reported this to Graphisoft North America and after a bit of explaining, he tried it and said it looks like a bug. I'm surprised that no one has posted this yet (as far as I know).

[Steve Jepson]

I was able to reproduce the problem with a rotated grid. However, in your screen shot it does not look like your grid is rotated. It could be some other grid setting.

[Anonymous]

This is the official response from Graphisoft. Yes, it is the rotated grid, but it is also a bug and should not be happening.

"Here is another workaround for the dimension problem:
- Go to View/Grid Options/Grids and background...
- Set "Rotation Angle" to 0.

The bug is that that rotation angle determines the direction of dimensions, even if the rotated grid is otherwise turned off. I have recorded this bug."

[Anonymous]

Steve,

My grid is on as you can see from the screenshot. GS says it's a bug. The message is from Greg Kmethy.

[Steve Jepson]

I edited my post too late. But I do not see this as a bug since we have the Any Direciton option. Notice the X-Y only icon. By virtue of the dots, it indicates to me that the dimensions are relative to the grid.

I can't think of a situation where dimenison relative to a rotated grid would be useful but perhaps someone else can.

[Anonymous]

This is something they are likely to address in the hotfix, coming out "sometime this fall".

[Ted Taylor]

Thanks for the post on this. I had this show up a few weeks back, but had not had an opportunity until this morning to sit down and try to figure out what bone head move that I had made that caused the problem. The grid was my first suspect, but it was not rotated (but the rotation angle was set to 45º) so I thought something was corrupted in the particular file or my environments. A couple of hours messing with it, and your post shows up at lunch which saved me an afternoon of screwing around with it.

Thanks again!

[Steve Jepson]

How do I fix it? I was fooling arround to see if I could reproduce the problem and I did. Now I don't know how to fix it.

[Anonymous]

From what I understand from GS, it is a bug that links the dimension tool to the rotated grid, even though the rotated grid is turned off.

That's why it wasn't allowing me to dimension horizontally or vertically: it was thinking that I had the rotated grid turned on and set to 45 degrees. If you follow Greg's directions and set the rotated grid to 0 degrees, then it thinks you have the rotated grid on but set to 0.

If you are using the rotated grid, the x-y direction dimension tool should work fine.

[Steve Jepson]

Thats a bug for sure. To fix it reset the rotated grid.

So how is this possible? Notice the rotated grid and placing an X-Y Only dimension.