Dimension problem

Hi, all,

I have a problem... everytime I open the drawing, which has any dimensions in it, several of dims get streched through all the screen. I mean, that one of the dimension attachment point attaches itself to any random point on the display. So, everytime i need to print the drawing, I have to look for displaced dims and reattach them to points again. Does anyone know, how to avoid this?

Thanks

Are they set to ANNOTATIVE?

I don't know, could you tell me how to check that? I haven't made them annotative, as I remember... but might be...

Just check the properties of one of them. It is in the list. Then go into your dimstyles if they are and make sure that ANNOTATIVE is not selected.

Thanks, checked. They are not Annotative, but some of them are Associative.

Please, help someone... i still have this problem... just opened the drawing and again need to reposition one end of the dimension, because it was somewhere outside the plan limits, just fixed itself in the space....

I am wondering...are all your lines at 0,00 elevation, or they have differnent Z coordinations? This is a common problem...

I think yes, I checked, all z values are 0.00... can it be because the dimension is associative? and when you have just temporary line to put the dim on, everything is ok... after removing temp line, the dim doesn't have any geometric object to associate with and just fixes itself anywhere...???

Yup, after you delete an object it was associated to, it will just be a plain non associated dimension in space.

have you tried to delete the original dimension, re-dimension the object, save, then reopen? if so, does the problem still persist?

sometimes I get this problem if I open a file saved in previous versions of CAD with newer versions.

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Now I made all dimensions non-associative and tried to reopen the drawing several times, seems fine, didn't find any more 'streched dimensions' If someone wants to know how to make dimension non-associative:

select dimension, type in 'dimdisassociate'.

Thanks for everyone's help:)