how do i alter how my dims read?

How do i alter how my dimensions read?

they sometimes apear different ways round on different sides of my drawing. ie one side is left to right and the other is right to left.

Is there some way i can alter the dims to change this? Ive tried all the settings in the dimension style manager.

Can anyone help me out please?

I believe that if you look under Dimension Styles / Text / Text Alignment that you have selected ISO Standard. Change this to either Horizontal or Aligned with dimension line.

I've tried that. it dosnt work.

the text is in the place i want it just upside down.

Did you try using Override or Update on the dimension?

yeah tried all of that.

It might just be something thats impossible to do in AutoCAD

Can you post the drawing?

this is the section I'm talking about,

4936-A1 01 -Roofplan (1).pdf

Wow, that's a neat trick! The text wasn't mirrored from some strange location was it?

Try checking your UCS.

You didn't happen to use DView with the Twist option at any point?

no not mirrored, just normal dimensioning. My cad oftain flips the dims the other way round...

im using AutoCad 2004 by the way.

My cad often flips the dims the other way round...

OK. How about a custom dimstyle? Are you using one for "unique" situations?

As you can tell, I running low on ideas. Someone throw us a life perserver!

What is your first pick point for the "upsidedown" dimensions?

yeah it is a custom dimstyle i use.

its not a big deal i suposse i just think it looks odd with the dims changing round on some parts of the drawing.

I think you can just select each one (or select as many as you want to face a particular way), go into properties, scroll down to text, and there is a command line that lets you rotate/change the orientation of the dimension text. That's the way I've adjusted dimension text in the past, but you may want to set up a particular style, if this is something that you need to do over and over.

While we are on the subject of dimension text, how do I get fractions to stack when I am manually adjusting the actual numbers, so that it looks just like as if the number were generated just by dimensioning? That is, when you add a linear dimension, and the line is say- seven feet, seven and three quarters of an inch long, the dimension tool will stack the fraction neatly (either horizontal or diagonal) but when I manually input numbers for a dimension in properties (like when I am not showing the line to scale, but I am just saying that it is such and such length) the fraction won't stack the same, it just looks like this: 7' 7 3/4" (I've even tried keeping the dim. text styles the same). Is this confusing? Or am I grasping at something that is simply not possible?

driftingsun3:

It is highly recommended that you post your question in the proper forum as a separate thread from this one. You will stand a better chance of getting a response. Thank you.

Tacked on at the end of this thread it might get missed.

thanks for that, that works well enough for what i need.

cheers

Hey ReMark, where are ya? You might or might not, remember the controvesy I started awhile back when I wanted to change whether my dimensions were in fractions or decimals, depending upon whether I selected "F" or "D" at the dimension prompt. Some complained that they "always" worked in decimals, and they could never override dimensions where they work. Most didn't understand that I wasn't changing the dimension, just whether it was represented as a decimal or a fraction. But guess what? Cadalyst thought I might have something, so much so, that they published my idea!!!! Here it is: http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/styles/dimension-decimals-or-fractions TA DA!

I'm right here (as usual) just lurking in the shadows until you post. LOL

Congrats on being published in Cadalyst magazine's Tool Tips. I'll be curious to see how much action your routine generates. Keep us posted. Nice work.