[Al Skierkiewicz]

Double check all the variable settings under dimension. You may have set a very large box for dimension text but have selected a small font. There also might be a setting for "gap" which is the amount of white space between the end of the dimension extension line and any other dimension element. Unusual settings in these areas give very strange resuts. Also check that the color of all your dimension variables. You may have one set to the same color as the background in which case it is there but you can't see it. A check I use with Autocad in such cases is to erase with a crossing box where there is no drawn elements. If the program returns that it found something, then there is an object that is the same color as the background or it is extremely small (or large).