Adding a "-" when using fractional settings

[wbrokow1]

For a reason forced upon me, I have to display my dimensions as:

 

123-3/4"

 

the 3/4 can be diagonal.

 

If I use achitectural it adds feet, inches then a "-" then fractions. This is not what I want.

 

inches-diagonal fraction"

Anybody know where I can set this and never have to use override again , it's driving me crazy

I am using autocad 2007

Thanks,

Walter

Edited February 21, 2014 by wbrokow1
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[ReMark]

My first thought would be that you could not force AutoCAD to do that. Sure, you can have a prefix or a suffix but there is no option for a ???fix. Would it be called a midfix? LoL

 

Too bad the fraction isn't treated like a sub-unit to the full inches. Then maybe you could have the dash as a prefix and the as a suffix.

 

No "separator" option like there is for decimal although a dash is not one of the three choices offered there.

 

I'm stumped. Maybe rkent can think of something.

[Dana W]

Whoever is demanding this is just plain mistaken. In Architectural and fractional dimension representation, there is only a dash between feet and inches, never between inches and fractions. It is not done, period.

 

This has been an international accepted standard for centuries. Why would someone want to change it?

[ReMark]

Unless the first number represents feet I cannot recall seeing a drawing where inches and fractions of an inch were separated by a dash. Of course I'm blind in one eye and can't hear out of the other so I may have missed it.

 

Remember...rules are made to be broken. So go out today and break a rule! You're feel better after you do.

[rkent]

I can't think of a non-lisp solution. If you are being told to over write dimensions so that the dim shows that way then someone is accepting a lot of responsibility for mistakes. I would push back, tell them there is no way to do that with the settings available and over writing dims is a waste of time and making the possibility of issuing drawings with wrong dimensions a very likely one.

[wbrokow1]

Yes, I have informed them of their ridiculous request and explained why we should never ever do this, but to no avail. It has turned into a laborious PITA.

Thanks for everyones input.

[ReMark]

When you come up with a suitable workaround come back and update us. I for one would like to know how the problem was addressed. Thanks....and good luck.

[RobDraw]

I agree with rkent.

 

But would like to add that the company I work for uses the dash before the fraction. We rarely use feet but, if we are using feet and inches, we round off to the nearest inch with a dash between feet and inches.

 

We don't have a dimension style that puts the dash before the fraction but we use dimensions even less than we use feet.

[Dinochrome]

A place I worked two lifetimes ago had the inches-dash-fraction standard. It was used in notes and writing, but not in dimensioning.

[cturner]

I agree. What is really "stupid" is that AutoCAD itself violates that rule. If you want to move an object 1 foot 1 and 1/8", you have to type "1'1-1/8".

I always thought that wrong.

[Dana W]

I agree. What is really "stupid" is that AutoCAD itself violates that rule. If you want to move an object 1 foot 1 and 1/8", you have to type "1'1-1/8".

I always thought that wrong.

We're not talking about what AutoCad needs as input delimiters. We are talking about the normal accepted way to write out dimensions on a drawing. Is there another way to tell a computer program that two consecutive 1's is not eleven? Oh, wait. There is 13.125" which also works quite well.