Dimensions in paperspace not representative to modelspace?

I have just ran into a problem in which I have never encountered in the
past. I usually dimension all objects in paperspace and as long as they
are perpindicular to the drawing plane, I have yet to have a problem
with them not showing the correct measurement as they have been drawn
in modelspace. I am currently working on a house drawing for a friend
of mine and all of the dimensions that are done in paperspace are
coming out there true measurement in paperspace, ie: with a scale of
1:40 a line measuring 48" measures 1.2". Has the drawing become
corrupt? Is there a variable that has gotten changed accidentally? I
have copied the entire drawing into a new file but I still have the
problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

You have 2 options. Click yourself into the view and dimension from within
the viewed modelspace. Or setup your dimensions to convert the 1:40 scale.
There is nothing wrong you are just scaling down the model to fit on a small
sheet at a ratio you aren't used to what version are you using.

Corey

 

What version? If 2002 or higher, check the DIMASSOC variable. It should be
set to 2.

 

I am using 2002. I primarily draw mechanical drawings for work, so most
of my drawings are not nearly as big as a house. I have already checked
that variable and it was set to 2. All of my drawing is done in 3D, so
I have drawn this house as a solid model. 95% of al of the components
subfloor, 2x4's, 2x10's etc.. are just scaled versions of the same
1x1x1 cube block. Would this have conflicted with anything?

 

I am on 2002 as well. There have been bugs in paperspace dimensions,
since they were introduced... I have doubts they will ever be
troublefree.

In 2002, transpacial dimensions were introduced. The idea was that a
paperspace dimension would connect to the item you were measuring and
automatically show the correct value, regardless of the scale of the
view. Even if you edit on the model tab the transpacial dimension
should update.

The biggest problem I ran into was that the transpacial dimensions
simply didn't work on most 3-d entities.(an acknowledged bug).

In the past I used paperspace dimensions by creating sytles with
manually set linear scale values. However, the last version I used, I
had dimensions which would forget their scale factor.occasionally
(perhaps some sort of file corruption that was never solved)

So, for now, I stick faithfully to only placing dimensions in
modelspace... which gets to be a pain after you hit a hundred layers.
Joe Dunfee