Updated Dimensions

[Stuart Gray]

We have just noted that the decimal rounding does not update when you go into the UNITS menu and say change from Rounding to nearest from 0.0 to 0. We still get dimensions that show say 100.5mm.

Are we missing something ?

Stuart GrayFAW ArchitectsNorthampton, England

[defjef]

try this... select class option ACTIVE only... Select DIMENSION from the class drop down... you should see ONLY the dimensions on that layer. Go into the Object Info palette where you can change the parmenter for dimensions. All dimesions on that layer will change to the "attributes/paramenters" you select. Do this for each layer by selecting the layers from the later drop down. You could also make ALL layer visible and do this in one action.

[Guest]

Once you've inserted dimensions in the drawing, going back into Units and changing the dimension rounding will NOT update already existing dimensions. All new dimensions will use the new units setting.

It is key the units setting is set up correctly before beginning any drawing for this key reason.

[Mark Farnan]

Hi Stuart,

This was a design decision we made a few releases ago that we felt gave users maximum flexibility. If we changed every existing dimension when the rounding changed on the Units dialog and you didn't want that, it could be difficult or impossible to manually revisit each existing dimension and remember and reset each individual rounding value to what it was. The way it is now, while it's a few extra steps to get the existing dimensions changed, it's a pretty straightforward task using the Object Info palette.

Mark FarnanCore Technologies and Imaging ManagerNemetschek NA