You pretty much got it right, something that will not fit on the drawing sheet and needs to be broken up. Are you familiar with "match lines"? More of an civil or plant design drafting technique than mechanical. I am detailing a set of drawings of a building (actually a parking deck) and it is over 600' long so I need to break it up with match lines (I am using cropped views to break it up into two managable view sizes, one for the East end and one for the West end) but I still need a single dimension that represents the entire overall length even though for any given view that dimension will not actually be true to the objects being displayed in the drawing view. For example if the drawing view shows 300' of the building I still need to have a dimension showing 600' overall length in that view. I have figured out that I can create a single dimension that shows the entire length of the building (600') then create another dimension for the portion I am trying to show in one of the views (300'), delete the for the
300' dimension place a regular note, group it to the 300' dimension and link that note to the 600' dimension. Then I hide the original 600' dimension. That way I am showing the overall length and it is still parametric to the model so that if the building gets bigger or smaller my "dimension" will update. I am sure all that is very confusing to read. The last remaining problem is that I want to show a double arrow head to represent the fact that this dimension is forshortened.
Guess I could just fake it and sketch in another arrow head but I was hoping for something better.
Maybe create a block with double arrow heads and place that at the end of the dimension?
Sam