Is it a bug?

[duffsparky]

I've spent a several days trying to learn Visio 3 while drawing a floor plan
of an existing building.

While doing this I've had lots of problems trying to get accurately measured
items to fit into the space they should occupy on the drawing. After a lot of
cursing and swearing I found that some of the dimensions shown did not
reflect what they were actually representing; eg a dimension labelled as
382mm between the arrowheads was in fact 552mm; as displayed in its
Properties Box. Hence my drawing is shot-to-sh*** and all wrong.

Please can someone advise if this is a settings/configuration problem or a
bug.

I'd have thought, if I use the dimension tool to show the length of an
object I want to insert, lets say a wall at 1000mm in length; then I draw the
wall between the dimension markers, I should get a wall 1000mm long and not
some other length.

Kind regards

 

[Doug.S]

I have not experienced such a bug, except consider...

Suggest you check the properties are showing the same length as the
dimension....probably the length is measuring a diagonal length from x1,y1
to x2,y2 rather than the dimension from x1 to x2 directly (i.e it is
including a y component).

Try using a dimensioning shape that is restricted to horizontal or vertical
and you will avoid this seeming error.

It arises from the set points and set-off lines not being perfectly aligned
with the measured distance along the coordinate axes and being different
lengths. i.e. measuring the bounding box, not the dimension.

Look carefully at "all" the properties data to relate to the coordinate
system.

Doug