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    Default Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    When I use the Flip Arrow command it leaves behind a line where the arrow was in the first place. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

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    Question Re: Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    for my own clarification... does it leave behind an actual line, or just a 'spot' that will go away if you regen or save and reopen the drawing?

    (also, what release are you on, in case that helps anyone reading your question thanks!)

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    When I use the Flip Arrow command it leaves behind a line where the arrow was in the first place. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
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    Default Re: Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    It is leaving a line and I am using AutoCAD 2006

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    Default Re: Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    One thing that might help is to create a custom block as arrow and then set the arrow size to very small. It would help if you attach an image showing the result you want or attach a drawing.

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    Default Re: Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    Sorry to bring this up again years later but was this problem ever resolved?
    I just discovered the "flip arrow" command a couple of days ago but I'm having the same problem as bryanf. (I'm using 2009 with MEP)

    When I draw the dimension it looks like -------->I------I<----------

    I want it to look like I<----->I so I flip the arrows (AutoCAD thinks the space between the dimension lines is too small so it wants to put them outside but there is actually lots of room!)

    but they end up looking like -------I<----->I------

    I tried the link suggested by Jimmy.bergmark but it didn't seem to solve the problem. I don't want really tiny custom arrows. I need my regular arrows but I waould rather have them between my dimension lines than outside the dimension lines.

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    Default Re: Flip Arrow leaves behind a Line where the arrow was originally

    Maybe look into the same stuff in this thread: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=102244

    Some form of workaround, making AC think it's a tick instead of an arrow. Then it doesn't do the arrow swapping automatically.

    Another possibility would be to draw your arrow entirely over sized (say something like 100 times too large. Then change your dimstyle's Arrow Size to 0.01 ... this so AC "thinks" the arrow is a lot smaller than it displays and thus doesn't swap it when you don't want it to do so.

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