Can you reattach broken dimension lines and leader lines?

I did the inevitable. I updated a drawing and changed a surface
reference value in the process. This caused a handfull of dimension
lines in the 2D drawing to become broken (gold colored / disconnected).


Rather than delete half-a-dozen dimensions and recreating them
(forgetting what I deleted in the process). Can I not just reconnect
them somehow? It feels like you could be able to drag the tip back to
the target surface.

 

I have found that some of the time the dims can be reattached. I haven't
figured out what the criteria are as to when they will and when they will
not, but just try it. If it works, great, if not, oh well. Sorry for not
having a better answer.

WT

 

You can usually reattach drawing dimensions, but never (I think) model
dimensions.
It kills me that model dimensions can lose their associativity, but they
can....

John H

 

Isn't it the other way around? I think it is my drawing dimensions that I
can't reattach and my model dimensions that I can.

I thought I heard at SWW that this was going to be fixed in 07. Was I
dreaming?


Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

In 2006 you can click annotation arrows and drag them objects by
gripping the arrow handle. There is not a handle on a dimension line
so unless someone knows a trick I don't expect a dimension can be
reattached. Deleting and recreating becomes the only way as far as I
know.