JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 I have a drawing from an outside source which was not drawn to scale, and dimensioned in MS.. When trying to scale the drawing to 1:1, the dimensions lose their contents. When looking at the properties, the contents of the override do not jive with what is actually shown, and any attempt to edit, move, copy/paste, or scale the dimensions will delete the contents. I have not come across anything like this before. Does anyone have an idea??? Drawing attached... weird dimensions.dwg Quote
rkent Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 I have a drawing from an outside source which was not drawn to scale, and dimensioned in MS.. When trying to scale the drawing to 1:1, the dimensions lose their contents. When looking at the properties, the contents of the override do not jive with what is actually shown, and any attempt to edit, move, copy/paste, or scale the dimensions will delete the contents. I have not come across anything like this before. Does anyone have an idea??? Drawing attached... [ATTACH]36048[/ATTACH] It worked fine for me. (The word is jibe). weird dims.dwg Quote
JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Author Posted July 19, 2012 It worked fine for me. (The word is jibe). hmmm.... see the screencast.. (I meant jive... I was hoping that I would hear jazzy flowing rhythms from the dim override... ) http://screencast.com/t/ovIve6nxQzJ Quote
Dadgad Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 You need to scale the whole drawing in modelspace up by a factor of 4, as it is not drawn 1:1. The dimensions are neither associative nor annotative, which is why you are confused, they are drawn to OSNAPS, but they are not attached to them. Also the horizontal dimensions are ALIGNED dimensions which is a strange choice, most folks would have used a regular ROTATED DIMENSION for those. I hope that helps you get a handle on it. As you can see in the image, when I scaled it up by a factor of 4 the dimensions scaled right up with it, no problem. After which they all showed the actual measurement values. Quote
JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Author Posted July 19, 2012 Yes but notice how the information in the dimensions were lost when the drawing was scaled? The tapped holes have notes attached that are no longer there upon scaling... Thats what is confusing me Quote
rkent Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 I didn't notice the radial dims, that is weird. Those are some jive talking dimensions right there. Quote
JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Author Posted July 19, 2012 I didn't notice the radial dims, that is weird. Those are some jive talking dimensions right there. Jive talking dimensions, indeed... HA! Quote
Dadgad Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 If you explode those diametric dimension overrides before you scale the drawing up, then they will become text and when you scale them they will be maintained (strange, but legible). Very strange dimensions, they don't even show a DIMSTYLE in my quick properties palette. P.S. I think that your is my favorite signature on the whole forum. Truer words were never spoken. Quote
SLW210 Posted July 19, 2012 Posted July 19, 2012 They were imported from another program. From the Dimstyles available looks like Mechanical AM Power Dimensions and notation. As Dadgad mentioned, explode will save the text, but I would explode a copy and then copy/paste the text into the dimensions using DDEDIT. Nevermind about being created in mechanical, I see you are using Mechanical. No telling what created those dimension notes. Quote
JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Author Posted July 19, 2012 If you explode those diametric dimension overrides before you scale the drawing up, then they will become text and when you scale them they will be maintained (strange, but legible).. That seems to be the best way to go about this... This is one of those things, now, that will make me lose sleep because I cant figure it out! HA! P.S. I think that your is my favorite signature on the whole forum. Truer words were never spoken. "Ordinary" people will never understand, will they? We are a unique group of people! Quote
JPlanera Posted July 19, 2012 Author Posted July 19, 2012 They were imported from another program. From the Dimstyles available looks like Mechanical AM Power Dimensions and notation. Im running Mechanical... Thats what I am going to do though. Explode and copy/paste. Thanks all for the advice! Quote
Dadgad Posted July 20, 2012 Posted July 20, 2012 [quote name=JPlanera;486617 "Ordinary" people will never understand' date=' will they? We are a unique group of people![/quote] Life is too short, and the opportunities too great ... what is so special about being ordinary? Why not aspire to extraordinary? Ask not what ORDINARY can do for you ...... Quote
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