Dimensions going crazy

[civeng80]

When I dimension they include circles and rectangles and making a mess of everything. The dimension styles manager box shows heaps of circles and rectangles.

Anyone have an explanation ?

Annoying and making me go crazy.

 

[civeng80]

Here are 2 screenshots of whats going on.

The problem seems to be with the arrowheads being architectural ticks. If I change them to oblique then the problem dissapears.

 

[civeng80]

Other screenshot of Dimensions style box

 

[ohiocad]

I would go into block editor and see if the architectural tick block (think block is called _archtick or something like that) has a circle that has been added to it by mistake.

That's my best guess, if that's not it, no idea. We have a few clients that use custom arrowheads, and have encountered similar issues when someone edits the incorrect block.

 

[civeng80]

Thanks for reply ohiocad.

I went to the block editor and there is a rectangle and circle for the arc tick. It can be edited back to the original block.

But why did it change ?

Im the only one using the drawing file and never did any block changes to this block.

 

[ohiocad]

No telling on that one. Have seen autocad do some goofy things. No chance someone else worked in the drawing, or that it was modified and sent back to you by a client, etc?

 

[civeng80]

All I remember is that I worked on the job for a few hours straight, dimensioning, and then had a look at another part of the job and there was a mass of circles and rectangles.
Thats when I started to pull my hair out.