While dimensioning, images of a Block appear

[fostertom]

I am placing dimensions in paperspace, dimensioning an object which has been created in modelspace, now visible in a viewport.

 

At both snap points onto the object, as well as the dimension, leaders etc, there appears an image of one of the many Blocks that I have in modelspace.

One image is right way up, the other one rotated 180o.

For both images, the base point of the Block is located at the snap point I have just placed.

Snap anywhere on either of the images, it reports in Properties not as a Block, but as a Dimension (rotated). Delete the image, and the dimension disappears too.

 

This is happening in this file in both Acad 2009 and in BricsCAD (Acad clone), with all the dimstyles that I have created (worked fine up to now) but not not with dimstyles Standard or ISO-25.

 

Some setting? I can't find anything. Ideas appreciated.

[ReMark]

It might help if you attach a copy of the drawing (not an image file) to your next post. Someone here will take a look at it. We don't need the entire drawing; just enough so the problem can be recreated.

[fostertom]

Thanks - attached. I hope all the dimstyles/texrstyles come through. Try placing a dim in layout tab 81 using any of the dimstyles that have tom in its name. For me, it also places 2 (mirror) images of the one Block that I've left in the file.

300Fdemo.dwg

[rkent]

The arrow heads in that style are defined as a huge block rather than arrows.

[fostertom]

!

 

How did that happen? that is actually comical

 

Thanks a lot.

[Dana W]

Weird, but easy to fix.

[RobDraw]

that is actually comical

 

I thought so, too.

[Dana W]

Apparently, someone clicked on User Arrow by accident when they were selecting the arrowhead type desired.

[fostertom]

I think it was this - have been annoyed for some time by mystery unpurgeable Block 'Oblique', not realising it was part of my several custom Dimstyles. Somehow I managed to purge it, and Dimstyle instead grabbled the first alternative Block in the file - which was that plan drawing.

[Dana W]

I think it was this - have been annoyed for some time by mystery unpurgeable Block 'Oblique', not realising it was part of my several custom Dimstyles. Somehow I managed to purge it, and Dimstyle instead grabbled the first alternative Block in the file - which was that plan drawing.

Yup. Makes sense. Actually Oblique comes with AutoCad as part of the standard set of arrowheads.

[iconeo]

Too funny......