Have You Tried: Associated Dimensions in AutoCAD

[The AutoCAD Blog]

For the latest in our Have You Tried series, we’re going to look at associated dimensions in AutoCAD. Having dimensions associated to the geometry they measure can help keep the dimensions updated when the design changes. 

Dimensions that update are linked or associated with the geometry they measure. That’s called dimension associativity. Dimensions can be associative or non-associative depending on how they are created. They can also become disassociated if the associated geometry is deleted or exploded.

In this new Have You Tried, we’ll go over how to:

• Monitor dimension associativity
• Control whether new dimensions are associative
• Work with disassociated dimensions
• Associate or reassociate dimensions
• Disassociate a dimension

Learn how to work with associative dimensions with the step-by-step examples in the Have You Tried: Associative Dimensions topic.

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[steven-g]

The real question is have you tried fixing the problems caused by badly placed and non-associative dimensions, and wondered why anybody would do it that way?

[Dana W]

Can we have dimensions that actually do associate when they are enabled and placed properly?  I occasionally find them loosie goosy at random with no seemingly direct reason.

[SLW210]

Y'all realize this is a RSS Feed from a blog, don't y'all? I do not believe they will see the comments.

 

Why not post those questions on the actual blog site? It would be interesting to see the responses.