Dimension Variables Defaults

Jerry/Debbie

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Jun 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/21/98

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Is there a list of the default settings for dimensioning variables? I
know drawing.dwg should have them, but I may have changed & saved while
exploring the family thing. I did a look-thru of the on-line manuals
and hardcopy, but see no list, other than descriptions without defaults.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Debbie Hopkins

Jerry/Debbie

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Jun 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/21/98

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Thank you Alfredo, this worked very well. Drawing.dwg came up but with
different settings! Looks like I am ready for Monday....

Regards,
Debbie Hopkins

Alfredo Medina

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Jun 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/22/98

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Jerry,
I have an idea, why don´t you start a new drawing using the "start from scratch"
option -that is available when you want to create a new command-, and then type Dim,
and then Status ?

Alfredo Medina
alfm...@hotmail.com

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> Is there a list of the default settings for dimensioning variables?

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Alfredo Medina

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Jun 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/22/98

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Oops ! Sorry...I meant: "...when you want to create a new drawing..." ( I wrote
"command" instead of drawing)

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Jerry/Debbie

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Jun 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/22/98

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I had not used the 'start from scratch' (I turned off the default popup
immediately after installation). Used protoyping, since all our
projects are based on existing floor & site plans. I would occasionally
start a new drawing by opening drawing.dwg -leftover habits from
previous versions where prototype existed. I did discover the defaults
as you describe, but they were all in architectural measurements and the
precision was 6 points, so I must have changed them at some point.

Thanks all for the assistance, my titleblock templates are (maybe)
finished.

Regards,
Debbie Hopkins

Dave Byrnes

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Jun 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/23/98

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Debbie -

> Thank you Alfredo, this worked very well. Drawing.dwg came up but with
> different settings! Looks like I am ready for Monday....

You may not be out of the woods yet... when you start from scratch using
English units, you actually use a template called ACAD.DWT; when you start
from scratch using metric units, you use a template called ACADISO.DWT.

Both of those files can be opened in AutoCAD *as templates* and modified;
e.g. you could load a raster image of Bugs Bunny in ACAD.DWT and save it.
After that, every time you start from scratch using English defaults...
er... what's up, doc?

You said in your other message that you couldn't find a listing of the
default values anywhere; if you look them up variable by variable in the
AutoCAD Command Reference, it will show you the initial, or default, value.

John Schmidt

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Jun 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/23/98

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>> when you start from scratch using English units,
>> you actually use a template called ACAD.DWT; when
>> you start from scratch using metric units, you
>> use a template called ACADISO.DWT

Er...Dave, that's not *completely* right; it will only use these when
starting R14 without the startup dialog box. But when you start from
scratch, (using the "start from scratch" button), with English units, it
uses R14's built in defaults and the acad.pat and acad.lin files. Metric
uses acadiso.pat and acadiso.lin. But in neither case does the "start
from scratch" button use either the acad.dwt or acadiso.dwt; it's like
using the "no prototype" option in earlier releases. Acad.dwt and
acadiso.dwt are simply the stock .dwt files you'll get if you save
either the English or Metric "start from scratch" defaults to a
template.

To prove the these .dwt files aren't use with the "start from scratch"
button, save some changes to either of them, then use the "start from
scratch" button; neither the English or Metric will have the changes
saved to acad.dwt or acadiso.dwt.

John

Dave Byrnes

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Jun 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/24/98

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Hi, John! As I told Ian W in email, that was a big oopsie. I was *sure* I'd
seen a message in the Start New Drawing dialogue box that said, when
English was selected, something like "Your drawing will be based on the
template ACAD.DWT." Of course, when I looked again, that wasn't there. I
went through the steps you mentioned while I was still in the same online
session and found out how it REALLY works. After I posted, of course.

How embarrasing!
Dave

> Er...Dave, that's not *completely* right...
I'd have said it was totally wrong! <g>

Dave Byrnes

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Jun 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/24/98

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Debbie - I hope you read the messages that were replies to my message to
you... they're right, I'm totally wrong. Sorry for the bum steer!

Dave

Dave Byrnes

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Jun 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/24/98

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Ian - I got a copy of your message in my email. If your email sw filters
unknown recipients you won't see my reply. Just wanted to thank you for
such a gentle correction <g>.
--
Dave Byrnes
Bowen Island, BC

> Oops. When you start from scratch, you do not use any template, but
> the defaults built into the program itself.

Jerry/Debbie

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Jun 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/24/98

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yes, I've been following & learning - since I bypassed all defaults,
after upgrading from 12dos to a brief 13 to 14, I really missed some
basic things. I've got my list of defaults now (I had created dimension
styles with those unruly children<g> , thought I had better start with a
clean slate).

Regards,
Debbie Hopkins