How to update dimensionings (witness lines and dimensioning texts of dimensioning chains or zone polygons?
Our clients often complain about the dimensionings. Suddenly, they notice that on their floor plan some witness lines do not point to the point they want it to or a zone polygon seems to be not referring to the corner points of the room. This is because of a tricky feature in ArchiCAD (both, 5.0 and TeamWork) The reason can be the result of the following actions: the client deleted e.g. a wall or made its layer temporary hidden, made a copy/paste and rebuilt the model before showing the layer again – or saved. Please suggest your users to do the following steps before printing/plotting or saving a PlotMaker file in order to get correct dimensionings: – draw a line, select it, copy it – paste it – use the Rebuild command from the Display menu (If you find the drawn lines unnecessary you can use the Undo command from the Edit menu to get rid of them, the dimensioning remains correct.) It doesn’t matter what element you paste, important is, that something must be pasted to the current sto
