Dimension flat to screen not available

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Morning all, I would like to show dimension annotations on a 3D view of the model. I like to display the following reference dimensions flat to screen but the otion is greyed out in the ‘system option’ while the assembly model is open.
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I suppose I’m dealing with a ‘DimXpert model’, but I don’t know exactly what it is and how to set it.

The option is available in other assembly models I’m working with, like the following
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Does anybody know how to solve the problem? Any help is really appreciated.

2

As far as I know, dimxpert is used for dimensioning in 3D and showing it on the drawing page. so it doesn’t matter how it looks in 3d environment.

did you try this?
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3

Yes all the dimensions I want to show are ‘Reference dimensions’ but they are not flat to screen, as the other model I have.

4

can you upload a file i want to see how it looks.
I use sw 2020

5

I sorted it out eventually.
I had to delete all the DimXpert tolerances, than it worked.
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