Strange dimensions

[nextvkin]

Hi all,
A while back I posted a question about strange text that's showing up differently even though they are the same text style. I now have a similar problem with dimensions. I tried matching properties but the problem's still there. I thought it was a visual (screen) problem until I had it printed. I'm using ACAD 2007 (both full & LT). Please help. Sample attached.
TIA.
Kay

PS the (successful) solution for the text problem was to send it to z=0, however doesn't seem to work with dimensions.

[BrenBren]

Hi all,
A while back I posted a question about strange text that's showing up differently even though they are the same text style. I now have a similar problem with dimensions. I tried matching properties but the problem's still there. I thought it was a visual (screen) problem until I had it printed. I'm using ACAD 2007 (both full & LT). Please help. Sample attached.
TIA.
Kay

PS the (successful) solution for the text problem was to send it to z=0, however doesn't seem to work with dimensions.

I opened your drawing, and can see the differences on screen, and in plot preview (the 2700 to the right looks bolder), however, when I printed, they came out fine.

Can you try and print this to a different printer and see if that changes things?

[Gigliano70]

Incidentally, I plotted it and it didn't show the different thicknesses as well. But, I found an anomoly in your drawing that could solve the problem. Though I don't know what the problem actually is. If you select one dim at a time it shows the text style for each as Romans. But if you select both at the same time it's acting as if they are on different text styles. if you select both and look at the properties they are different as well. I think you may have created the dimension overrides after placing one of them then placed the other.

This happens to me here as well when i've update some of our older drawings to the latest text and dim styles. It seems to me that there is some information regarding TTF files like stylus that you are using in your dim styles on "other" cad forums. if they are older on one computer and newer on the other it can cause anomolies like this. I would suggest deleting all dimensions and purge the drawing of all dimension styles then import or create new ones.



Hope this helps,
~Frank

[jaberwok]

"If you select one dim at a time it shows the text style for each as Romans. But if you select both at the same time it's acting as if they are on different text styles. if you select both and look at the properties they are different as well."

FWIW, I don't see that ( A2008 ). Picking both dims gives me the same details as picking either one of them.
The dim texts DO look different on-screen and in print preview but the difference disappears as I zoom in.

[nextvkin]

Hi all,
Thanks for having a stab at it, I did notice the 'varies' in the text style, text color, line color, etc when both are selected.
The difference is definitely there - I tried it on 2 different printers, one is more significant than the other though. The best result was saving it as a pdf & printing it out.
Also when I grab the strange one by the insertion point & snap it to the insertion point of the good one, it fixes it. Seems to me that there is some sort of z value not=0 in the strange one.
You're right Frank, it's a dimension from an old drawing.

[Gigliano70]

Hi all,
Thanks for having a stab at it, I did notice the 'varies' in the text style, text color, line color, etc when both are selected.
The difference is definitely there - I tried it on 2 different printers, one is more significant than the other though. The best result was saving it as a pdf & printing it out.
Also when I grab the strange one by the insertion point & snap it to the insertion point of the good one, it fixes it. Seems to me that there is some sort of z value not=0 in the strange one.
You're right Frank, it's a dimension from an old drawing.

when i selected both, the text style went blank this means that they are different somehow. I changed the styles to something different and the difference went away. since they look to be identical in every way, all i can think of is the TTF stylus that you are using in your dimstyle. The Autodesk forum had some information on this as well, but no answer to the problem there either (that i could see).

[nextvkin]

You're right again, it's only the TTF that show up the difference, the shx fonts are OK, but swis lt cn bt is our office standard. Anyway, luckily there are not that many of these strange dimensions in the drawing, I've been able to snap them to the good ones to fix the problem.

[Gigliano70]

You're right again, it's only the TTF that show up the difference, the shx fonts are OK, but swis lt cn bt is our office standard. Anyway, luckily there are not that many of these strange dimensions in the drawing, I've been able to snap them to the good ones to fix the problem.

Good, at you know whats going on(hopefully) Then again i'm not sure if i know whats going on but we'll stick with the TTF thing.