A scale error leads to bad behavior?

[KirbyWan]

Howdy all,

So I detailed a section view and under the section view it has the secion label A-A. I wanted to put my part number on there so I opended the text box hit return and put my part number in which was something like 987654-3. My drawing disappears and inplace of my part number is says "SCALE 987654:3" Not what I wanted but no big deal. I reenter the scale correctly as 4:1 and the drawing pops back to where it should be. No harm no foul ... except when I zoom to fit (f normally) it zooms so my drawing is small spec way off in the distance. Is there an easy fix for this? I checked the scale for the part and it's still 4:1.

Thanks,

-Kirby

Kirby Wilkerson

Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.

 

[Updraft]

Probably there is a hanging chad way out in space from when the scale was too big. You brought the scale back down, but something that moved out due to the large scale is still out there. You can try zooming to the areas away from your part to find the "chad", but this can be a tedious quest. You could also take the zoom back out to the huge number so everything is the way it was, then bring the zoom down to half that and then hit "f". This should reveal the "chad", which is probably a dimension or a note.

- - -Updraft

 

[KirbyWan]

Thanks Updraft,

I found it by hitting f to zoom to fit, then did a select and made the biggest select box I could that didn't include the main part of the drawing. I ended up with a note selected and did a zoom to select and it brought me right to the section label that was lost in space. Deleted it and zoom to fit worked like it should.

-Kirby

Kirby Wilkerson

Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.