Dimstyle override

[mom of 3]

I have searched the forums & found a similar question to what I have, but I have not found an answer yet.

I am trying to figure out why my dimstyle insists on changing to an override when I don't want it to? I have loaded the dimstyle, set it current, done some dims, saved, then started again, but the dims were too big. I checked back in my dimstyle, & whadyaknow? It said override! :? I don't want an override, NOR did I change anything! Ideas?
PS - 2004 with LDD

[cook2s]

Check your drawing setup and make sure that the drawing scale is set appropriately. If the drawing scale differs from the scale of your current dimstyle, then upon reopening the drawing it will change it to match the current drawing settings.

Through the pull down menu go to Projects --> Drawing setup

[mom of 3]

My dimstyle still changed to override, yet the text looks right.......but I still don't understand why it continues to try to override when there's nothing to override........?
And how would this work of you have a drawing that includes sheets with different scales? Create new dimstyles?

[quiggle]

It is an unfortunate tendancy for Land Desktop to take it upon itself to reset the current dimstyle to the project scale. It almost always happens after a LDT command and I have found no workaround in two years of fighting it. The best suggestion I can make is to check the dimstyle before making any dimension. Admittedly tedious, but less so than erasing a bad dimension and then checking or fiddling with the properties to make it right.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Do any of the following threads help...

Why does AutoCAD generate a dimension style override everytime I open a drawing and.. (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=6784)

Units and Dimension Style Reverting (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=10220)

Dimension overrides help (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=23052)

Have a good one, Mike

[sinc]

It is an unfortunate tendancy for Land Desktop to take it upon itself to reset the current dimstyle to the project scale. It almost always happens after a LDT command and I have found no workaround in two years of fighting it. The best suggestion I can make is to check the dimstyle before making any dimension. Admittedly tedious, but less so than erasing a bad dimension and then checking or fiddling with the properties to make it right.
I stopped fighting it, and my life is now much easier. I admit it would be much nicer if Autodesk simply fixed the mess, but it's been around for a long time now, and I'm not holding my breath. Every once in a while I wonder what they were thinking when they set it up this way, but that's a rather pointless exercise...

I've found the following method works best, and doesn't require creating Dimstyles for every text size at every scale (which is the way many people seem to configure dimstyles, but which I strongly dislike due to the large number of dimstyles it requires).

The trick seems to be multiple - use text styles with height 0 in your dimstyle, and set the height in the dimstyle to the height as it should appear on paper (i.e. set it to .1 for .1-inch text, like L100). Then, always make sure your project scale is set to the scale you are currently using for your labels drawing - i.e., the scale of the viewport your dimension will be viewed in, if you are dimensioning in model space.

You should now have roughly one dimstyle for each size text. I have one for 60, 80, 100, and 120 text (four dimstyles total), pretty much the only text sizes I ever use in drawings.

Whenever I change dimstyles and I'm dimensioning in model space, right after I change dimstyles I breifly startup Label Settings, and then hit cancel. This creates the Fit override only, according to project scale. In paperspace, I don't bother starting up Label Settings, because I don't want the override. This works well. (There is no particular reason I use "Lable Settings" except that it starts up fast, I have the button already in my toolbars, and it's one of the LDD commands that automatically creates the dimstyle override. Any similar command would work just as well.)

Only other thing is all the garbage overrides that are automatically created when a project is opened. To take care of those, I just always reselect my dimstyle in the toolbar first. For example, even if "EJSI-80" is my current dimstyle and it's the dimstyle I want, I will first reselect "EJSI-80" in the toolbar dropdown box - this discards the slew of initial overrides (without any warning messages or dialog boxes). I then hit my "Label Settings" button, and then immediately hit "OK" - this give me the proper "fit" override.

Once you get used to this method, it is very quick and painless. I keep thinking I should try to write something that will override the Dimstyle selection so that the Fit override is automatically applied every time the dimstyle is changed, without requiring that "Label Settings" step, but haven't gotten a round tuit yet...