Annotation Scale Error in Inventor 2012

By Luke Davenport

Two customer support calls on the same topic on the same morning is an excellent excuse for a first blog post! It seems that last week there may have been a Microsoft automatic update that caused the dimension values in some of our customer’s Inventor model sketches to become invisible like this:

An error message like this may also pop up when creating a new part;

The solution to this little conundrum is to increase the annotation scale size in Application options. A sensible size for this is 1.5.

And you should now be able to see your dimensions again.