Oops, found a bad one today.

Our machinist found a bad bug in 2006 today. He happened to know what a
certain angle should be and pointed out that it was not showing up that
way on the drawing. On investigation it appears that converting from
2004 to 2006 caused the display of an angle dimension in at least this
one broken view to display incorrectly. My problem is now to determine
if any other drawings had angle dimensions corrupted. Anybody have any
ideas?

 

The dimension was not dangling. In the PM the dimension value was given
correctly as 1.79 deg. However, the displayed dimension in the view was
..444 deg. Unbreaking the view restored the dimension to it's correct
value. The value .444 is the tangent of the angle divided by the scale
factor.

The selections were checked ad naseum. This was strictly a display
issue.

The fact that the dimension displayed correctly prior to conversion
points to a conversion problem.

 

Dale,

You have hit on the real problem. How do I know that this has not
affected other files? Right now I am working out a macro to tell me
which drawings have broken views in them.

And, no, it didn't seem to affect other similar drawings.

In the PM the correct angle shows even though in the view itself the
incorrect angle shows. And breaking and unbreaking the view toggles the
error. So does checking and unchecking the dimension override.

 

Could you send me your file I would love to have a look at it?