abkb12 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 AutoCAD 2013 Vanilla problem. Textsize is set to 2.5. I draw a rectangle in model space and set dimscale to 5. Then dimension the rectangle. When I select the dimension text Mtext show it as 2.5 instead of 12.5. If I explode the dimension Mtext will show text to be 12.5. Never had this problem in previous versions of autocad. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abkb12 Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 I got a solution, it can not be done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 The usual way is to set the text height to zero in the text style, then set the dim style text height to 12.5 while using that text style in the dim style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abkb12 Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Thank you fro your response. you have to follow the procedure I described. You will then see that Mtext dose not report the proper height. the text style is set to 0. what happens in the company I work for they refuse to use paper space and viewports. So they place the title block in model space and then scale up the title block which in turn you need to set the dimscale to the same value you have scale up the title block so that text will scale up to a readable size. I have been trying to get them to change for the last 6 years but we have people who are very old school and will not change from they way then did it before dos autocad 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 .... what happens in the company I work for they refuse to use paper space .... I bet I could convince them to change in 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I bet I could convince them to change in 5 minutes. I bet you could JD, and I would love to watch you, as no doubt your argument would be quite compelling. Even without unleashing Inventor on them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbadbob658 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Have you checked that the dimension style has annotative switched off? If it's annotative then dimscale will not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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