AutoCAD 2013:: Mac Dimension Annotation Text Not Showing Up? Dec 6, 2012 im a mac user - whenever i go to do a linear dimension nothing shows up? Similar Messages:. ADVERTISEMENT Feb 28, 2013 Showing annotation objects, I’m wondering how the two options “show annotation objects for current scale only” & “show annotation objects for all scales” introduce the same result (attached)! Despite the fact that these annotation objects are assigned to other scales (attached) In these two cases, the only displayed annotation objects are those related to the current scale!
At some point, you will need to add dimensions to your AutoCAD drawing. Start off with this exercise to introduce AutoCAD’s dimensioning functionality by creating linear dimensions that show the horizontal or vertical distance between two endpoints: Start a. Why are some AutoCAD dimensions missing? I saw many threads about this issue like this one in AutoCAD forum. When you examine the Both are showing the same part from my AutoCAD drawing, I can see annotations in my left viewport, but I don’t see the annotations in the right viewport.
Not all the annotation objects are displayed! Oct 20, 2011 When i mark Text/Dimension/Multileader and such in autocad 2011 LT, i get an issue, which i have tried to shown on the picture.The problem is that when i mark them, they show the current size they have, plus any other size they have had (Annotation it seems).
I Make a dimension. The overall annotation scale is 1:10. Now i change the overall annotation scale to 1:100. Then i set the overall annotation scale back to 1:10, i click my dimension, and it now shows how it currently looks, plus how it looked when the annotation scale was 1:100. This way i end up with every text object showing up 5 times when i mark them.
Apr 18, 2013 I have a set of drawings (19) with a lot of annotations, however I have to change them according to the original text: Example: Return Air Drive by RAR, Sump by SMP etc. How is possible to select ALL the annotation with the same text and change them for the new ones? Every time that I select by text, either the MultiText or the Multileader objects are selected correctly but I can change only one at the time. Is there anyway to do the changing process in one shot for Text or Multitext with the same contents? Aug 24, 2012 I have different annotative dimension on my drawing, when I select one all others dimension show up as you can see on the picture (260 three times ). Is there any solution to select dimension or text without showing other scale?
Sep 30, 2013 I have been trying to crack dimension annotation for ages now. I usually try to solve it within a drawing I am working on. This latest attempt is a test with only something in it to highlight the issue I am having. Basically there is a correct annotation in model space and three viewports with three attempts to dimension it in paper space.
It is drawn in the template I normally use. Have a look at the attached. Apr 22, 2012 How to make dimension annotation automatic.? Cause I have ever watching in youtube.on autocad 2011. Mar 24, 2013 In the drawing, I have my iPart which is automatically driven at certain instance and also the dimension in the drawing is automatically driven.
How I can get the value of that dimension so I can put it inside my parts list? Whenever I click that dimension it's showing me this value '. Nov 25, 2013 I'm working with Inventor 2014 and I really can't manage to annotate the dimension between the bottom of a milling and the cut profile of the circumference where the milling was done. Aug 20, 2013 I just made an object, specifically, a rectangle with 6 units of height and 30 of long.
Now I want to write text in the middle of the rectangle, I was able o find the middle point using osnap and a diagonal line (the point would be 3 units of height and 15 of long) but when I start writing text (with dtext) the text starts writing from that middle point to the right, If its a long text its not in the middle it starts in the middle:/ what can I do so the text will be exactly at the center? May 28, 2012 Just upgraded to Autocad 2013 and I've noticed that if you click a dimension then right click the 'dimension text position' is missing. Also double clicking it to get to properties, under text position I don't get the option to change to sat centred or above line. How to get it back.
I've switched to classic view if this has any effect.Inventor 2013 Jun 24, 2013 Trying to place this dimension text. Is there any circumstance that someone would want the leader to be the final result of this animation? Of all the ways to generate a leader (when the correct one to the center of the dim can't be generated), the extremely acute angle version doesn't seem like the best option. Sep 12, 2013 I am as-building some model space drawings. Client wants model space. I am trying to determine how to size the text and dimensions.
Ex: drawing 1/2' =1'-0', I scaled the drawing bdr up 24 times. What is the right sizing for text, dims.
Arrows to get 1/8' text, etc? So far the arrow heads look to tiny.c Apr 11, 2013 Check out the two pics I have added. I did this from Solidworks. Sometimes when dimensioning you have a series of holes that are close together like the ones shown below. What I would like to do is to drag the jog so that the dimension line does not run thru the other hole and the text stays where you put it.
I would like to be able to do this without exploding it or going thru some sort of hoops to make it happens. Is this possible in Autocad? I thought that in a earlier version of Autocad you were able to do it but I am not sure. Jul 5, 2012 At work we occasionally find the need to override a dimension with a text description.
Is it possible to stack this text? Jan 9, 2013 When publishing a sheet set some of my annotation labels are not showing up. If I open the sheet, they are there, set to print and everything is correct. If I print just that sheet, everything is fine.
Only happens in publish. It's almost like the publish command isn't giving the drawing enough time to open and load everything before printing. Jul 31, 2013 When placing a dimension with the text outside of the extension lines, it defaults to placing the text either above right or below left of the arrows. If you try to grip/drag the text to another location (i.e. below right or above left) it won't allow it. I don't know if it is following some standard, but in the example shown, I had to explode the dimension to position the text in the preferred location. Nov 15, 2012 In AutoCAD 2013, when I try to select a dimension object for moving, erasing, &c, the text disappears. How to get it to stay displayed? Seems to just be when using AutoCAD 2013.
Dec 15, 2013 When I have to scale something after bringing it in from another drawing (Windows copy, paste), usually (but strangely not always, it seems) the dimension text and arrows are all messed up. If I scale down, they are (obviously) way too big, up, and they are microscopic. How is this best avoided / dealt with?
I imagine it is something with the DIMSTYLE not being copied over or something? Oct 24, 2013 I have the fill color turned on in my dimension style to background. I want to adjust the 'masking' box size. Just as you are able to in the text edit-background mask.
I believe the default must be 1.25 larger than the text. I would like it to be 1.00. Is this possible? You can adjust the text background mask size, but not the dimension mask size. Aug 18, 2011 I found a strange behavior of AutoCAD. When I was modifying a drawing and adding dimension annotation, there suddenly come some small circles as highlighted in yellow in the screenshot.
Cc.png First, there is no way I can't select them. Second, zooming doesn’t change their size.
What these small circles are? How to get rid of them? Apr 12, 2013 how to edit the line space distance for the dimension text. I can change the style, size and several other features. But the line space distance is the one thing I can't seem to edit. The only solution I know of and use is exploding the dimension and then the text turns to mtext and the option becomes available.
But then if the section changes to a shorter/longer area, i have to go through several steps with the exploded lines. How to edit the line space distance for the annotation in the dimensions. I have also attached a pic of my issue as well.
C3D 2014 SP1 DELL Precision T3600 Intel Xeon E5-1650 @ 3.20GHz NVIDIA QUADRO 4000 Dual Monitor 32 GB RAM / Win7 Pro 64-bit Sep 26, 2013 I installed acad 2014 and copied all my font files into the directory that cad says it looks in under the support paths, and the main font used is a true text font (penguin) and it is not showing up right. Apr 22, 2013 We have dwg auctocad 2010, and there are some Arabic Text in the cad dwg, When I convert cad dwg into PDF file, It arabic Text not showing correct Arabic language.
Arabic Text show separate separate alphabat why? How I could convert cad dwg so that aracbic text should be show correctly in PDF file? Nov 7, 2013 I need to start doing shaped glass drawings for our new glass supplier who insists everything is viewed from outside. Unfortunately all our drawings are viewed from inside and I don't want my team to be responsible for copying and flipping glass details in case they forget to flip one day. I can obviously mirror the viewport view by clicking View/Views/Bottom but this is also mirroring any text dimensions, even though my Mirrtext preference is set to 0.
Is there a way to set a dimension style where the text is automatically back to front so it will then appear the right way round in that particular viewport. How to get round this problem without duplicating parts that can then get missed at a later date and not amended? This needs to work in both AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014 as we run a mixture in our office. Oct 20, 2013 i am opening file in autocad 2013, my all dimension tags and text and point are merged with my other drawing objects how can i separate. May 2, 2012 I need to add toolbars in 2d annotation???
May 19, 2012 I am using AutoCAD 2013 and need to set my viewport scale to 1'=50'. Apr 26, 2012 I've created a drawing and when I create a detail view, the actual view appears in the drawing but the circle and arrows along with the view identifier are not showing up. It's like the visibility has been turn off.
How to turn it back on? Inventor 2013 Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1 HP EliteBook 8470w Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 16 GB AMD FirePro M2000 3D Connexion SpacePilot Jun 2, 2011 I'm trying to get the dimension text that I pull out to the side closer to the actual dimension marks. The 2 1/2' and 2' shown have a minimum distance they can get toward their dimensions. I would like it to be about half of what it is, but so far I haven't been able to find the property that changes that.
Feb 21, 2013 Can i change the length of the dimension line 'extension' when my dimension text placement is beside the dimension line (see attached image)?dim line length.jpg.
In continuation of my look at AutoCAD Mechanical I’m going to continue selling you on the benefits of using AutoCAD Mechanical, especially in a mechanical / manufacturing area of design and detailing A few years back Autodesk commissioned an independent study exploring the advantages of using AutoCAD Mechanical over vanilla AutoCAD. The study looked at 10-common challenges exploring the time and effort to complete each task in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical. What they found was the same tasks were completed 65% faster using AutoCAD Mechanical. Drafting and annotation tasks are 55% faster. Design and engineering tasks are 85% faster.
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quick and easy to be modified AutoCAD Mechanical provides additional dimension commands for creating multiple dimensions and for merging / splitting dimensions. It’s difficult to explain all the options and features when it comes to dimensions. The best thing is to dive in and explore everything that is there. All dimension features are conveniently located in one ribbon panel Mechanical Symbols Using the built-in AutoCAD Mechanical symbol tools you can quickly create standards-based surface texture symbols, datums, geometric dimensioning and tolerance symbols, targets, weld symbols, and notes. The bonus, after placed, they can be modified quickly via a double-click.
They are also treated as an annotation meaning the AutoCAD Mechanical scale will adjust the size of these just like dimensions Hole Tables AutoCAD Mechanical Hole Charts create a table showing the type of hole, quantities, and coordinate values (based on your selected datum). The Format is controlled via the Standards Autodesk University If this has peaked your interest and you are attending Autodesk University this year come check out my class on AutoCAD Mechanical. Its a one-hour lecture called the “ABC’s of AutoCAD Mechanical” in which we will bring a new level of productivity to your AutoCAD work. You can register for Autodesk University at my class is MA2870 – The ABC’s of Autodesk® AutoCAD® Mechanical THE OTHER POSTS IN THE SERIES.
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