Re-attach dimensions

If drawing dimensions become unattached (turn a greeny-yellow colour)
because of a change to model geometry, is it possible to re-attach them?
I don't seem to be able to get at the end points of the extension lines to
drag them onto the new geometry.

It's a real pain to have to recreate loads of them.

TIA
John Harland
SW2004sp5

 

those are known as olive 'dangling dimensions'. no way to re-attach
them and best to reimport them

 

Thanks....what a pain.
I can feel an enhancement request coming on.

It seems like dangling drawing dimensions are more likely to occur in SW
than in some other packages, because the dimensions appear to be linked to
edges rather than faces - the latter being more "durable" when changing the
topology of a part.

Regards,
John Harland

 

You should be able to attach some of them. There doesn't appear to be a
method to the madness of which ones you can and can't reattach. Are
these imported dimensions or are they ones that you've added into the
drawing manually.

 

There's more than one scenario.....typical examples are:-
1) Dimensions added manually in the drawing
2) Dimensions left dangling after making a new drawing by copying an
existing one and changing the file ref of the part being detailed.

John Harland

 

What I have noticed since 2006 is the difficulty in moving the
dimension attachment points from one end of an entity to the other so
that dimension lines are not on top of outlines.

Andy Rodgers

 

Regarding the 'olive' colored dangling dimensions...isn't that color a
poor choice? I find that it doesn't always stand out. So...I went to
Tools\Options\Colors and changed the 'Dimensions, Dangling' color to
red. Much easier to distinguish were error are.

Ken