Dimensions not telling the truth

[Mike Sealander]

Here's an interesting example of a dimension getting it's information from a family.FunnyDimensions.jpg

[DaveP]

I'd guess your Dimension Style is rounding to the nearest inch

[jsteinhauer]

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...-not-adding-up

[MikeJarosz]

It's also a good idea to have as few snaps as possible turned on. It amazes me how many users have all their snaps on, then wonder why the point they selected doesn't look right. In dense areas of a drawing, I very often turn all snaps off and use explicit snaps SM, SE, SC etc.

[vgonzales]

Change your Units tolerance to the smallest unit 1/256". Manage Tab > Project Units.

[jsteinhauer]

Change your Units tolerance to the smallest unit 1/256". Manage Tab > Project Units.

Or use the hot key command of 'UN' to bring up the project units.

It amazes me how many users have all their snaps on

How do you control your snaps in Revit? Only time I get the option to select a snap is when I'm drafting or modeling an element, never with dimensions.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[MikeJarosz]

under the manage tab, there is a horseshoe magnet icon "snaps"



Snaps.JPG

[jsteinhauer]

O-SNAP!!! Well I'll be dipped...
I guess it was never an issue for me before, but wait I can apply 3" as a length snap. And the peasants rejoice!!!
There is even the shortcut commands for the snaps as well. Yay^2

Thanks Mike

Jeff S.

[DaveP]

The "Length dimension snap increment" is the one that specifies how much it "jumps" when you are, for instance, creating a Wall.
The further you are Zoomed Out, the more to the left of those options it goes.
So when you're Zoomed way out, it goes by 4' increments. As you Zoom In, it changes first to 6", then 1", then 1/4" when you're way in.
We've got ours set to 4'-0", 1'-0", 0'-4", 0'-1", 0'-1/4"
The 4" help with Masonry units. Happens much more often than 6"
Also, this is unique to a project, not a user, so you'll want to set your defaults in your Template.

[jsteinhauer]

Why would these settings be project specific & not user specific? I could see it being like the project browser organization, that at first is project, but each user can change it to whatever they want.

Cheers,
Jeff S.