Expert: Paul Jordan - 8/26/2008

Question
Hello Paul,

I have been working with Autocad for years. My first experience was at school with Rel. 12.
Since then I have been working with every release, sometimes skipping one.

Now I have been using AutoCAD 2008 for a while and I keep running in to the same problem. I never experienced this problem in the previous versions.

When I want to fit a big 1:1 scale modelspace part or drawing in paperspace, I usually divide it in to multiple scaled (1:2, 1:5 or 1:10 etc...) viewports, showing only the relevant parts of the part or drawing.
When I want to dimension the total length of the object, the dimension text shows the length of the paperspace distance, nog the actutal length of the object in modelspace.
When I dimension a piece of the object, in a single viewport the dimensions display the actual size.

Now I have to override all the "multiple viewport" dimensions. This takes more time and I can easily miss one wich leads to confusion.

The DIMASSOC variable is set to <2>

I must be missing another variable setting wich causes this, but I cant find it. In the previous releases this missing setting was probably always on by default...?

Thanks in advance,

Jeroen

Answer
I think that's one of those settings you do when you first set up your Autocad and never do it again.  I just tried it on 2009 and it's not doing it across viewports.  Were you able to do this in previous releases?? I never had a reason to try it I guess.

Sorry I'm not much help but, I can say, it's not a default setting.

I found this thread on the topic over at the discussion groups at autodesk.com

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=664858