Drawing dimensions becoming dangling on rebuild

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Drawing dimensions becoming dangling on rebuild

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Well, this is definitely a new one for me. I copied a sheet in a drawing, deleted the dimensions I don't need, and flipped from a front view to a back view, no problem. However, on rebuild, the 2 dimensions I kept became dangling. I reattatched them, and all was fine. Until, again, they became dangling on rebuild. My next step was deleting the dimensions and reinserting them, and I thought that would definitely fix it. No dice. No matter what i've tried, the dimensions become dangling on rebuild. Other new dimensions I inserted do not do this, though they are attatched to centerlines and are driven instead of driving. Anyone have any advice?
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Re: Drawing dimensions becoming dangling on rebuild

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What entities are the dimensions attached to?
Are all the dimensions breaking or just a few specific ones?
What happens when you create a new drawing view of the same part?
Can you post a screenshot, or better yet, your files?
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Re: Drawing dimensions becoming dangling on rebuild

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mike miller wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 12:31 pm What entities are the dimensions attached to?
Are all the dimensions breaking or just a few specific ones?
What happens when you create a new drawing view of the same part?
Can you post a screenshot, or better yet, your files?
I attached the dimensions to straight edges but it would only let me reattach to vertices or endpoints. Reattaching also made the dimensions invisible, which was another weird thing. I tried adding a new dimension to the view to see what would happen, and sure enough, it did the same. Strangely though, it only happened when I set it to a limit tolerance. The original 2 dimensions in question are also limit tolerances, so it must be something about that. Trying a new view now, the dimensions are going into a section, none of the dimensions on my back view are dangling on rebuild. Either to do with the section view or the limit tolerances, will apply a limit to the back and see if it does anything funky.
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Re: Drawing dimensions becoming dangling on rebuild

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Well, my solidworks went and crashed when I tried to box select the ones I had reattached that went invisible, and it crashed. I'm having no problems now so i'm thinking it must've been some weird, hopefully one-off glitch
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