To hide the yellow alerts on dissociated dimensions and leaders in AutoCAD

Autodesk Support

Mar 20, 2025

Products and versions covered

Issue:

Yellow alerts, indicated by an exclamation mark, appear next to some dimensions and leaders in AutoCAD or its verticals.

Causes:

When the annotation monitor is toggled on, these alerts display next to associative dimensions and leaders that have become dissociated from their objects.

Solution:

To toggle the annotation monitor off:

On the command line type ANNOMONITOR and set this variable to 0 to turn off the alert.

To keep the annotation monitor on, and re-associate the dissociated dimension:

Select the alert next to the dimension or type on the command line DIMREASSOCIATE.
Select the point that the dimension should re-associate with.

Note: Make sure OSNAPs are on. Try using Endpoint OSNAP only for accurate selection.

Products:

AutoCAD Products; Advance Steel;

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