Upside down dimensions

[CADgirl]

Ok I have not been able to find a solution to this problem. I was sent the floor plan of a building and I am drawing the rcp. I am trying to add some dimensions but they are upside down. The ucs is at world and mirrtext is at 0. I don't know what to do now! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[MaxwellEdison]

Nothing immediately springs to mind. Any chance you can wblock a dimension out an upload it?

[CADgirl]

I did forget to mention though that I rotated my viewport. I don't know if that would make a difference or not.

Here is the wblock.

new block.dwg

[JohnM]

are you working in your template with your dimensions or someone elses drawing

[CADgirl]

I got the drawing from somebody so I am using their dim styles- but it's on my own computer and everything. I also made a new dim style and it did the same thing. So that made me think that that wasn't the problem- but then again I have no idea what the problem is.

[JohnM]

working in a rotated viewport will do that, try highliting all the dimensions then in the properties box change the text rotation

[CADgirl]

Ok so it was because my viewport was rotated.

Thank you guys sooo much for helping me out! I'm glad I know what was causing it.

[RobertR]

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to leave this lisp here for the next person

who seeks an answer to this problem.

 

(defun c:DIMT180 (/ en1 en2 enXt env) 
 (setq en2 nil)
 (prompt "Pick dimension") 
 (while (not en2) 
   (setq en2 (entsel))
   (if en2 
     (progn
       (setq ent (entget (setq en1 (car en2))))
       (if (/= "DIMENSION" (cdr (assoc 0 ent))) 
         (setq en2 nil)
       )
     )
   )
 ) 
 (command "undo" "mark") 
 (if (assoc 53 ent) 
   (progn
     (setq env (+ (cdr (assoc 51 ent)) pi))
     (setq ent (subst (cons 51 env) (assoc 51 ent) ent))
   ) 
   (progn
     (setq ent (append ent (list (cons 51 pi))))
   )
 ) 
 (entmod ent) 
 (princ)
)

Edited March 25, 2013 by SLW210

[RobertR]

sigh....c:dimpt180, NOT c:Dimt180

[SLW210]

Include your Code in CODE TAGS and the emoticons won't show up. I fixed it for you this time.

 

CODE POSTING GUIDELINES.

 

Thank you for posting the code.

[guran]

Thank you, RobertR, for that very useful code.

[PotGuy]

I think the defib may be 3 years late. Good to know though and good code!