dimensions defualting to am5 layer in2013 autocad mechanical

[freewillie]

Hi Folks

 

New to the forum here but not autocad. I started back on r12 and use the product ocassionally to plan machine shop work. The problem i am having is that i always create a layer to dimension with ...but auto cad 2013 is defaulting to layer am5 to put dimensions on my drawing ...even though i am setting my dimension layer as the current layer on the layer manager. This as you can imagine a causes visual mess on multi layer drawings as all the dimensions are going on this am5 layer... how do i shut this default off??

 

thank you in advance!

Bill

[SLW210]

Dimensions will be placed on the layers you specified in Object Property Settings dialog box in Mechanical, if memory serves me correctly, been awhile since I used Mechanical. Should not have any effect on AutoCAD vanilla.

[freewillie]

Dimensions will be placed on the layers you specified in Object Property Settings dialog box in Mechanical, if memory serves me correctly, been awhile since I used Mechanical. Should not have any effect on AutoCAD vanilla.

 

I can change the properties of the dimension to the layer i want in Object Property Settings dialog box in Mechanical ... but the only way to shut the dimension off is by shutting off the am5 layer.

I just tried drawing a new dimension on the layer "dimension". when i check the properites it says it is on the layer "dimension" but if i shut off the "dimension" layer nothing happens {even when it is not the current layer} . If i do not want to see the dimension i have to shut off the am5 layer. Ive never had this happen before on 2011 version only on this 2013..hmm

i wonder if it has anything to do with using the auto dimension feature?Is it calling up layer am5?

I cant believe am5 over ride is happening... it seems like the lowest form of autocad function in wanting to just draw dimensions on a particular layer.