Dimensions wont find main layer

[SHCanada2]

I moved this wall out on the floor plan SPV, the dimensions on the roof SPV moved accordingly, but if I move the dimension and then try and get back the dimension to the main layer, it will not snap to it.

 

Anyone seen something like this? 

 

If I delete it and then click on the auto exterior it then finds it correctly. But why doesnt it work when I manually try and snap to it?  

Edited Tuesday at 04:15 AM by SHCanada2

[CarrieS]

This does look like strange behavior. If you send your project in to Technical Support we can take a closer look into what's going on.

 

Technical Support Center. 

 

 

Carrie

[Alaskan_Son]

Hard to tell from just a video, but a couple possibilities:

1. You have several things in that area and Chief is just having a hard time snapping to the one you want.  The reason this isn't true for new dimensions in that the new dimensions know exactly what they are supposed to be snapping to.  Editing after the fact allows you to snap to almost anything.
2. You aren't releasing you mouse button far enough from other object.  To snap to your wall's main layer when there are other potentially conflicting snap point nearby, I often find the need to release the mouse button much further down the wall.  It will still ultimately measure from the end of the wall, but you release the mouse button in an area where there are no conflicts.

[robdyck]

I think you have the wrong layers displayed for that function. If you have Walls, Layers turned off and if you do NOT have Walls, Main Layer Only turned ON, you cannot manually hit the wall main layer. That's what I think is going on there, but I could be wrong.

Changing the layer display will not affect the extension of existing dimensions but it does affect the interaction of new dimensions.

[SHCanada2]

4 hours ago, robdyck said:

I think you have the wrong layers displayed for that function. If you have Walls, Layers turned off and if you do NOT have Walls, Main Layer Only turned ON, you cannot manually hit the wall main layer. That's what I think is going on there, but I could be wrong.

i'll double check, but auto dimensioning with the layers on as shown picks up the corner I am trying to dimension to, implying it is the main layer

 

5 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

You aren't releasing you mouse button far enough from other object.  To snap to your wall's main layer when there are other potentially conflicting snap point nearby, I often find the need to release the mouse button much further down the wall.  It will still ultimately measure from the end of the wall, but you release the mouse button in an area where there are no conflicts.

I'll double check this as well, it was a while ago, but I think I tried that to, but not all the way to the top where it intersects the other wall.

 

I'll give it a whirl, thanks both