Been drafting 8 years and just learned my dimension styles were a mess

I was working on a big commercial project last month for a new office building downtown and kept getting these weird annotation scaling issues. Spent 3 hours trying to figure out why my text was showing up tiny in some viewports and huge in others. Turns out I had been setting up my dimension styles with a fixed text height instead of using annotative scaling the whole time. The senior drafter walked by and saw my model space full of random scale factors and just shook his head. He showed me how to set up annotative dimensions and it fixed everything in about 10 minutes. Made me wonder how many other basic things I've been doing the hard way without even knowing. Anybody else have that one setting or workflow you overlooked for years? What tipped you off?

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grant.jason28d ago

Drafting 8 years" and this is the big revelation? Doesn't sound that serious.

lisa97627d ago

Whoa hold on, I actually saw a news article about this the other day. The whole thing is about how they found old emails where the guy admitted he knew the soil tests were fake but kept pushing the project anyway. It's not just that it took 8 years, it's that he apparently lied about the safety reports the whole time to save money on cleanup. Eight years is a long time to cover something up, you know? It's like getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar for almost a decade.