11 replies to this topic

[GENE GILES]

Is there a way to copy dimensions from drawings? 

[Henry Buckner]

How would that work?

[GENE GILES]

So we copy drawings or details into pages and we have to re-dimension every time. I'm trying to avoid doing that

[Henry Buckner]

If you make a detail into a symbol the dimensions will remain. For copying and pasting a drawing from the clipboard the dimensions don't carry over, but I don't know why. 

[Don Gibbons]

Henry, I don't think that extensions and dimensions can be added to symbols. They haven't in the past, admitedly, I have not tried it in the current version.

 

Gene, I've always just made them notes and arrows if I'm going to make them a symbol or copy & paste them from one project to another.

[Henry Buckner]

I pulled up an old symbol and looked at it before I posted that and it had dimensions on it, but I might have added them as notes when I made the symbol.

[Keith Almond]

The easiest way to keep the dimension and everything in the drawing, Is INSERT the original drawing into the new one. You may have extra information that's not required, but deleting the excess is easier than re-dimensioning everything.

[GENE GILES]

Thanks All

[Mark Petri]

Another option is to keep the drawings separate and just place them both on the plan set. Then, align as needed. It may not be as seamless as merging or inserting one into the other, but it keeps each manageable on their own.

[Danial Anderson]

I just discovered this as a problem last week.  . I was instructed by SP support to do exactly what Keith Almond ( earlier post) described to do.

It seemed to be good advice

[Dennis Hilborn]

Too bad the designer of the program doesn't think like a real draftsman.

[Brad Graber]

It would be nice if dimensions stayed with symbols.