Steven Kenzer Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 I'm in the process of importing quite a few dwg's from an office that uses AutoCad. Everything comes in fine other then one detail. The dimensional arrow markers are HUGE. I'm attaching a screenshot to give a sense of this. I have tried playing with the import settings to no avail. Does anyone have the quick fix to this, maybe experienced a similar thing before? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Are the arrows associated with a Dimension Standard? If so, you could just edit that under File > Document Preferences > Dimensions You could also try using Select Similar after importing all layers and then edit attributes. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 You may also wish to change the Layer scale to something more appropriate. This can often solve this issue after importing a dwg file. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 As a follow on to what Christian said, try switching to a different Dimension Standard and then back. Quote Link to comment
Steven Kenzer Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Boy...still stumped here. Can you take a look at this file and see if you can make the large dimension arrows go away? I'm attaching it now. This is just after importing. Thank you. 303_Buffet.vwx Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Go to Document Settings : Document Preferences, Dimension Tab. Click the Custom button. Select Standard from the list and click the Edit button. Click the pull down menu to the left of Linear Markers and change it from Custom to something in the list. You probably want to repeat this with the Other Markers and Leader Line Markers also. To my eye, the .125" 15° marker is still to big, so you probably want to edit the marker list to add a smaller arrow. While you are editing the Standard standard, you might want to uncheck the Arrows Always Inside option. Click, OK, OK, OK to close the three windows. You should have something that is closer to what you want. Play with settings as necessary. Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Hi If you change the active layer scale of all the layers to 1:1 then they look more respectable. After that I noticed that all the dimensions are set to STANDARD. Edit the dimension standard from the Document preferences dialogue and set the arrows for the STANDARD style to something more appropriate. Works fine here. I'll upload the file .... 303_Buffet.vwx Quote Link to comment
Steven Kenzer Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Thanks so much for the help. Quote Link to comment
Steven Kenzer Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Both techniques worked so thank you again. For now, it's easiest to just change my import scale to 1:1 and be done with it ( I have about 30 files to review). I can't tell you how much I've appreciated this forum over the years. 1 Quote Link to comment
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