Dimension Style - degrees, minutes, seconds

[drafting1768]

Hey! Just wondering if anyone can help me identify what I'm missing here. I've set my dimension style to the following (I've added images) and what I'm getting is 90d0"0" instead of 90d00"00" (which is what I want).

 

Thanks in advance!

[SLW210]

If it is 0 minutes and 0 seconds it will only show the single 0 for the minutes, Select a higher precision and it will show more 0's for the seconds.

[Dana W]

I'm also running 2015 and I don't see any way around suppressing the leading zero in the minutes & seconds. The weird part is that there are two identical choices for 0d00'00" in the precision drop down list, and both of them result in 90d0'0''. >>shrug

[drafting1768]

I'm also running 2015 and I don't see any way around suppressing the leading zero in the minutes & seconds. The weird part is that there are two identical choices for 0d00'00" in the precision drop down list, and both of them result in 90d0'0''. >>shrug

 

Yes, exactly! I noticed the two identical options too. This is massively inconvenient. What is the point in setting the precision to 90d00"00" if it won't show both zeros?

[Dana W]

Yes, exactly! I noticed the two identical options too. This is massively inconvenient. What is the point in setting the precision to 90d00"00" if it won't show both zeros?

Yeah, and what's worse, they even offer the option of suppressing leading zeros. My Father-in-law was a Licensed Professional Land Surveyor who was persnickety about every bearing having exactly two digits in each position. There was a lisp program around for a while called label2 or something like that which would label the bearing (angle) with leading zeros along property lines, but it is not necessarily useful outside of civil drafting.

[drafting1768]

Yeah, and what's worse, they even offer the option of suppressing leading zeros. My Father-in-law was a Licensed Professional Land Surveyor who was persnickety about every bearing having exactly two digits in each position. There was a lisp program around for a while called label2 or something like that which would label the bearing (angle) with leading zeros along property lines, but it is not necessarily useful outside of civil drafting.

 

Land Survey drafting is exactly what I'm doing and I can promise you, they are ALL persnickety. I'll have to manually change each one to reflect both zeros. *sigh*

[Dana W]

Land Survey drafting is exactly what I'm doing and I can promise you, they are ALL persnickety. I'll have to manually change each one to reflect both zeros. *sigh*

Will Find & Replace work on Dims. I never tried it because they are never misspelled. You may have to use advanced Find techniques with wild cards, smoke, and blue lights to locate things like '2" to change it to '02". The special characters throw it for a fit. Find thinks the degree sign is %%d.

[drafting1768]

Will Find & Replace work on Dims. I never tried it because they are never misspelled.

 

It worked! Thank you! That will save me a tremendous amount of time!

 

For others who want to try it, I used find, typed in 0'0" and then replaced with 00'00". Done!

[Dana W]

It worked! Thank you! That will save me a tremendous amount of time!

 

For others who want to try it, I used find, typed in 0'0" and then replaced with 00'00". Done!

Well, waddaya know. Sometimes I step in ugly stuff and come out smellin' all good. Like I said, dims spell themselves and I DO NOT override them, so I have never used the find replace on them. I don't even add a VIF (verify in field) to them. I have a special little attributed diamond call-out for that. Good to know.

 

Now you only have to do it nine more times for the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, & '9".

[drafting1768]

Well, waddaya know. Sometimes I step in ugly stuff and come out smellin' all good. Like I said, dims spell themselves and I DO NOT override them, so I have never used the find replace on them. I don't even add a VIF (verify in field) to them. I have a special little attributed diamond call-out for that. Good to know.

 

Now you only have to do it nine more times for the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, & '9".

 

Very true but generally I have a lot of 90d angles so chances are I won't have too many of the others. Now we just have to find out why 2015 doesn't let you set a precision that does this automatically. We'll see...

[Dana W]

Very true but generally I have a lot of 90d angles so chances are I won't have too many of the others. Now we just have to find out why 2015 doesn't let you set a precision that does this automatically. We'll see...

It is probably supposed to, given the extra spot in the drop down list. Probably a case of the programmer copying a segment of code to use again for it, and forgetting to actually change the number of zeros to show. The testing & QA people overlooked it.

 

You should report it to AutoDesk. You may become personally responsible for 2015 SP4

 

We've never done that with a section of a drawing now have we? I can hear my boss now... "Why are these two cabinets identical? One is supposed to have a light cove under it."

 

I think my copy of 2009 LT does the 00" thing. I'll have to check.

[drafting1768]

It is probably supposed to, given the extra spot in the drop down list. Probably a case of the programmer copying a segment of code to use again for it, and forgetting to actually change the number of zeros to show. The testing & QA people overlooked it.

 

We've never done that with a section of a drawing now have we? I can hear my boss now... "Why are these two cabinets identical? One is supposed to have a light cove under it."

 

I think my copy of 2009 LT does the 00" thing. I'll have to check.

 

Very true!

[nestly]

The duplicate entries exist in all versions AFAIK. It's because there's no way to round minutes or seconds to a single digit.