Dimension Error

I am having an issue with Continuous Dimensions which presented itself immediately after I upgraded from Standard to Professional version of Draftsight on my main drafting computer station (Acer Laptop). An offset appears to be applied between the two architectural ticks on the dimension leaders and lines. Attached is a photo of the issue.

I downloaded a 30 day free trial of draftsight onto another computer (HP Laptop). On my HP the continuous dimension issue does not occur, but on my Acer it does. I have uninstalled and reinstalled draftsight on the Acer.

I have gone through every Drawing Setting, Drafting Style, and Profile setting, comparing the HP to the Acer and all of the settings and profiles are identical. This does not appear to be a profile, dimension style, or preference setting issue. I believe that I am experiencing a draftsight glitch.

I tried Restarting DraftSight with default settings:

a. Close DraftSight, go to location: ‘C:\\Users\\[username]\\AppData\\Roaming\\DraftSight’

(You can directly access this location by using the %appdata% in the RUN command of Windows.)

b. Right click the folder’ DraftSight’ and Rename the folder to ‘DraftSight_Old’

c. Restart DraftSight. DraftSight should now open with default settings.

d. Test the issue


This did not resolve the problem.


I have installed draftsight Professional on yet another computer (Dell Desktop) and transferred my license to it. The same issue is still occurring. I have downloaded and installed the new 2021 sp0 and the issue is still occurring. 

Please advise!


I have included an additional picture and the drawing the picture is from.