DANIEL Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 My co-worker seems to have possibly corrupted an entire set of drawings with this issue, that being that any sort of dimensional manipulation reverts the scale facter to some squirrelly negative number. Does anyone know of a way of correcting this? And what has caused this in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Does this mean there will soon be a job vacancy at your company? LOL Try setting both DIMSCALE and DIMLFAC to a value of 1. What happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 it reverts back to -2304, no matter what number you put there. I can get around it by doing a match properties on a dim that still has the correct factor. ps. I can't fire him, I need him and have invested to much time in him. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Were the drawings originally done in AutoCAD Architecture by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 i've not seen this problem coming from AutoCAD Architecture before. if matchprop fixes it, there must be some property in there that is causing the problem? what are the differences between a good and bad one? select one of each, and scroll thru properties, see which properties say VARIES. sorry if you've tried this already! can it be anything to do with the scale list? or is there some odd number set as a default? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 I'm not away of any information having come from Architectual but it is possible as there are entities that were generated by outside companies inserted into these files. no worries stuart, i have compared the good with the bad and see no differences, mind you, matching the properties only works till you do something with the chproperties dimstyle or some sort of manipulation, through grips or what ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 In ACA there was something that could automatically create a dimscale override. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 where would i look to change that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) That was in AutoCAD Architecture. I believe it is called AECDWGSETUP. Edited June 28, 2011 by ReMark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 unfortunately i don't have access to a copy of architectual, guess i'll have to look into a 30 day free trial lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pendean Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Share the DWG or a portion of it with the problem for others to examine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 unfortunately I can't legally post the file on a public domain. cleaning it up would leave an empty model space with a viewport and dimensions in paperspace, so I don't know how much one can discern from just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I would think only some dimensions would be necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 alright give me few and i'll get something posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 okay, while cleaning this up and severing my xreferences I desided to look at the dims and they work fine now ......... it has to be something in my base file and I can't give that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 A victim of your own success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 A victim of your own success. yes, unfortunately its a blank success lol, I think your on to something with the autocad architectual, whether that programs the cuplrit or not, i have an entity that has been brought in from an outside source thats causing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Could it be conflicting text styles with the same name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 I'm not seeing any discrepancies betwwen my text styles and my dimension style, unless theres something I'm not aware of beside the dimstyle and text style settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Could it be conflicting text styles with the same name? Sorry, should be... Could it be conflicting Dimension styles with the same name overwriting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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