CONNECT: bug in dimension. In V8i it is working properly.

Thanks for the great video. It has helped to understand what is happening in your supplied DGN file. Looking at the Dimension Styles you have produced they all look like the are using a cell called TRAZ-GR for the terminator which is just a diagonal line. I can replicate what you are explaining is happening here in relation to this cell increasing in thickness but only when you zoom the display out when placing the dimension and then back in. Is there any reason you need to use this cell for the terminator on these dimension styles? I was just thinking you could use a different Start and End Extension terminator rather than the cell.

The other unusual item of note is in relation to this TRAZ-GR cell being used as the terminator. I have dropped the dimension down to its individual geometry and this cell seems to have expanded dramatically as if the weight of the line was extremely thick. But looking at the properties of this element it does not have that attribute.

I think I'm going to have a closer look at what the elements contained in this cell have actually been designed as. Is there any information you could supply in relation to how this cell was originally created and possibly where it might have come from?

Hi, Andrew.

The cell was originally created in AutoCAD. The bug surely comes from there. The problem is to open previous files to CONNECT.

Regards,

Moisés.

Defect Report # 347152 has been raised for this issue and will be evaluated by the Bentley product management team for resolution in our regular updates. If you need to keep informed of updates to this if you could raise a new Service Request and we can link the two together.

I'm also seeing issues with thick extension lines in files that display just fine in V8i but go wrong in CONNECT. No usable work-around either.

CONNECT:

V8i:

Please get this fixed in the next release.

Currently CONNECT is unusable with a lot of legacy drawings that originated from DWG/DXF.

Koert,

You may want to have a look at this Bentley Communities article:
communities.bentley.com/.../15323.dimension-terminators-are-scaled-when-placed
Switching OFF the Uniform Cell Scale settings might be helpful to you

Hello Rene,

that did "resolve" the issue for about a quarter of the problem-dimensions in this drawing.

Of course it's not a fix and upgrading to CONNECT, only to discover that you'll need to redo most of the dimensions in your drawings because these dimensions are interpreted differently between V8i and CONNECT is not a very welcome surprise.

Even if the work-around would have fixed all the dimensions, changing nearly all of your dgn's, just to get around a bug in CONNECT may not be acceptable practice for everyone.

DGN's displaying differently between V8i and CONNECT should be pretty high priority on the fix list.

Thank you for the suggestion though.

Hello Rene,

that did "resolve" the issue for about a quarter of the problem-dimensions in this drawing.

Of course it's not a fix and upgrading to CONNECT, only to discover that you'll need to redo most of the dimensions in your drawings because these dimensions are interpreted differently between V8i and CONNECT is not a very welcome surprise.

Even if the work-around would have fixed all the dimensions, changing nearly all of your dgn's, just to get around a bug in CONNECT may not be acceptable practice for everyone.

DGN's displaying differently between V8i and CONNECT should be pretty high priority on the fix list.

Thank you for the suggestion though.