Dimensions going haywire after I mirror the drawing?

[neuri]

Hi,

 

How do I stop my dimensions from going haywire when I mirror, or copy my drawing elsewhere?

[Dadgad]

Lock your viewports?

[neuri]

It's in modelspace. The section of layouts are a mirror opposite, so I just did the dimensions for 1 side and tried mirroring it but the dimensions went haywire.

[nod684]

Hi,

 

How do I stop my dimensions from going haywire when I mirror, or copy my drawing elsewhere?

 

try disassociating the dimensions first before mirroring them by DIMDISASSOCIATE command then associate them again afterwards

[neuri]

thanks, that worked perfectly.

[nod684]

thanks, that worked perfectly.

 

you're welcome

[Dana W]

Hi,

 

How do I stop my dimensions from going haywire when I mirror, or copy my drawing elsewhere?

 

And we live with this sort of stuff from Autodesk all the time. We know it can't be fixed from our end, and we know it and hundreds of other little annoyances may never be fixed from the other end either, so we find work-arounds and use them long enough that they become procedures.

 

Since I draw a lot of resaurant, hotel and home kitchen cabinet elevations and detail sections, I have reason to mirror a lot of stuff. You'd not be surprised to find that almost every cabinet layout has some aspect that is perfectly symetrical from one side to the other. I have taken to either using non-associative dimensions or no dimensions at all until I have mirrored everything, then either dimassociate, or insert asociative dimensions after the fact.

 

I just saw a similar problem in another thread, too.

[SLW210]

Associated dimensions mirror just fine for me.

 

DIMASSOC=2 here.

 

Can you post a file that shows this problem?

 

From what I see on these complaints, the drawings originated in AutoCAD 2004 or 5 or some older version.

[Dana W]

Associated dimensions mirror just fine for me.

 

DIMASSOC=2 here.

 

Can you post a file that shows this problem?

 

From what I see on these complaints, the drawings originated in AutoCAD 2004 or 5 or some older version.

 

My issues were with 2007 and most recently last week with version 2008. I don't recall having the wacky dimension problem with my 2009 LT version here at home.

 

I also had other issues with the 2008 version, over the last month, which was "newly" installed on a 2012 issue HP desktop.

 

The drawing files used xrefs only for the border/title block, and a small finish schedule containing a handfull of attributed call-out symbol blocks. A brand new drawing developed a severely bloated scale list containing annotative scales, things like 1'0" = 1'-0" xref/xref/xref/xref/xref/xref/xref/..... There were thousands of them even though the annotative feature was not being used and the automatic annotative scale feature was turned off. Some of these scale items in the list, when cursor hovered, would display longer than my screen, much less the scale list select window. This happened within hours of opening the template and renaming it as a dwg, and being edited the first time.

 

Then AutoCad would suffer an unhandled exception, addressing a memory location if I attemped to click on the Edit Scale List button, and close abnormally and suddenly.

 

Usually, my dwg files run about 600 kb in size. This last one I am refering to was more than 25 mb in file size.

 

This is a known issue with 2008, as I learned here on the forum, and promptly ran Autodesk's hot fix designed to fix the issue. As far as I know, this resolved the scale list issue, at least temporarily. My contract for that set of drawings is completed and I am not working at that location for a couple of weeks.

 

My drawings in question have long since been corrected in one way or another, and I don't have a copy of any of them at the moment, that is suffering from any of the above issues.

 

I was a senior programmer/analyst for nearly 24 years in another industry. I have an idea what is wrong with AutoCad in general. The program is suffering from terminal humongous-itis, and acute subroutine proliferation. There is also a near fatal attack of "Too Many Cooks" syndrome.