A dosing device for setting a dose to be delivered by an injection device, the dosing device including a setting element, e.g. a setting sleeve, and a drawing element, e.g. a rotating sleeve, which can be rotated out of the dosing device for preparing a dose delivery. A stop is on the setting element, and a counter stop is on the drawing element so that a rotational motion of the drawing element relative the setting element can be limited by the stops. The present invention encompasses a method for setting a dose that should be delivered by an injection device, wherein the dose to be delivered can be set by a setting element, e.g. a setting sleeve, and a drawing element of the injection device, e.g. a rotating sleeve, can subsequently draw up the dose by effecting a rotational motion to deliver the set dose from the injection device in a subsequent step. According to the present invention, the setting process is isolated from drawing process.