Dimension Unit Precision - HELP!

[MimiN63]

I'd like to know if anyone has experienced this wacky problem. Often, we produce 4-5 sheet SW drawings. While working on the drawing and/or switching between it and the model, every so often I'll notice every dimension inserted into the drawing using the default dimension properties (ours is set to .xxx) are now 10 decimal places. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! Including those in blocks, which I find very strange. For awhile, I'd go through the sheets selecting them all and changing them back. Finally I thought to check the units in options and found that it somehow set itself to the max # decimal places. I would change it back to 3, rebuild, and continue...only later down the road to find it had done it again! Sometimes I'll send the drawing to the checker for approval looking just fine, then he'll open it and the same thing happens. We are all looking at the same templates from a server so it's our individual SW systems making this change. Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know why this occurs? It's driving us crazy!

 

[SBaugh]

Well for one thing 8 is the highest you can go, not 10. If your going to 10 then your Templates and possible your SW installs are bad. SW just doesn't change things on it's own. Something has to cause this to happen. A corrupted Template could do this. Ans since your all using the same ones. I would try making Completely new ones and see if that helps. If not then I would start trying to track down the problem to see if it's File Specfic or across the board for all files.

If something like this was going on for everyone I'm sure I would have heard about it by now. I think the problem is locallized to your area and it's probably in your Template or sheet formats.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

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[MimiN63]

Yes 8. Sorry, I was just emphasizing that they change to the max # of places. It seems to happen consistently to me, especially in large drawings so will experiment with a new template and try it with that same drawing. thanks.