What am I doing wrong?! DDE w/ Continuing Dims

[RedDirt]

This is making me nuts. I'm sure I'm clicking when I should be typing or vise versa. I'm not a beginner, but this might be a beginner question.....

I have an empty wall, and I'm marking off certain sections.
3', then 2'6", then 1'8", etc, etc.

I do a dim linear:
pick point, then ortho over, type "3'", enter.
For the following dims, I try to do dim continue
ortho over, type 2'6", enter, but it always gives me a strange dimension. Certainly not 2'6". What the heck is going on?

I realize that normally when you are dim'ing, you are measuring things that are already there. Is there a way to make this work without drawing construction lines, dim'ing them and then erasing them?

TIA!


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v.2007 Vanilla

[New2CADmike]

Maybe you are in another type of units..decimal or something other than architectual?? Type Units in the command line to see..Mike

[Cad64]

You could place your first 3' dimension as you did. For the next dimension, start the DIMLIN command, then use your NODE Osnap to set the first extension line origin, ortho over and type 2'-6". Do the same for the 3rd dimension, etc.

[iain9876]

not sure whats going on there, but have you looked at your settings in the dimension style?

[RedDirt]

I still don't get it. My units are fine. I gave up and just drew several line segments and QDIMed 'em and then deleted my line.

I can use the DIMCONTINUE if I have something to snap to, but not if I'm just typing in the distance.

Oh well.
Thanks for playing.

Red