Override the AutoCAD measurement
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Sometimes, in my current job, I have to go through old drawings. Since I wasn’t the creator of the drawings, I normally have to check all the dimensions to see if the CAD operator responsible for the project didn’t just override the text on the dimensions instead of drawing everything in the correct size.
As you can imagine, this is a time-consuming task because there is no way to tell when you open a drawing whether the dimensions are correct or not.
For this kind of situation, there is a fantastic, Express Tool that can check your drawings or even reset the dimension text to its true value.
You can access this tool from your top pull down menus:
Express Tool menu>Dimension>Reset Dim Text Value
Basically this tool executes the DIMREASSOC command, which if you are like me you may prefer to key in manually.
After executing the command it will ask you to select all the dimensions in question and AutoCAD will highlight the incorrect ones. You can also type in the word "All" to select all of the dimensions. Finally an additional enter will return the dimensions to their true value.
Good luck,
Fernando Salgado
As you can imagine, this is a time-consuming task because there is no way to tell when you open a drawing whether the dimensions are correct or not.
For this kind of situation, there is a fantastic, Express Tool that can check your drawings or even reset the dimension text to its true value.
You can access this tool from your top pull down menus:
Express Tool menu>Dimension>Reset Dim Text Value
Basically this tool executes the DIMREASSOC command, which if you are like me you may prefer to key in manually.
After executing the command it will ask you to select all the dimensions in question and AutoCAD will highlight the incorrect ones. You can also type in the word "All" to select all of the dimensions. Finally an additional enter will return the dimensions to their true value.
Good luck,
Fernando Salgado
2 Comments:
commented by 
Anonymous, 10/03/2007 3:29 PM
Anonymous, 10/03/2007 3:29 PM
Is there a way to write text to a dimension as an override with the command line?
Reason is I would like to use "<>" to add text and keep the associative nature of the dimension.
Reason is I would like to use "<>" to add text and keep the associative nature of the dimension.
Have a nice day