DIMZIN: What is the complete list of settings?
So I had a drawing which was not working at all correctly. All my dimstyles were correct but “dim/update” would not display the 0 inches I wanted. Turns out the DIMZIN was set to 8. However, I never in my life heard of this command/variable and had to do some serious digging to figure it out.
I ended up pulling a drawing I knew worked correctly- it’s DIMZIN was 11. I reset the problem drawing to 11 and it works fine now. However, 11 is not listed as an option in the Autodesk list of options.
More curious, I pulled a metric drawing from another project: DIMZIN is 9.
So what is the complete list of all possible variables?
Hi there,
According to AutoCAD Knowledgebase:
DIMZIN (System Variable)
Controls the suppression of zeros in the primary unit value.
| Type: | Integer |
| Saved in: | Drawing |
| Initial value: | 0 (imperial) or 8 (metric) |
Values 0-3 affect feet-and-inch dimensions only:
|
Value |
Description |
|---|---|
|
0 |
Suppresses zero feet and precisely zero inches |
|
1 |
Includes zero feet and precisely zero inches |
|
2 |
Includes zero feet and suppresses zero inches |
|
3 |
Includes zero inches and suppresses zero feet |
|
4 |
Suppresses leading zeros in decimal dimensions (for example, 0.5000 becomes .5000) |
|
8 |
Suppresses trailing zeros in decimal dimensions (for example, 12.5000 becomes 12.5) |
|
12 |
Suppresses both leading and trailing zeros (for example, 0.5000 becomes .5) |
These values can be combined by just adding the values;
so 11 would mean 8 + 3
8:Suppresses trailing zeros in decimal dimensions (for example, 12.5000 becomes 12.5)
3:Includes zero inches and suppresses zero feet
The following data obtained from:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2017/ENU/?guid=GUID-A1860981-FE1C-4947-927B-7CD6B8CEF8EE
Hope this helps
