Dimension scalings

Librecad version 2.1.0

After reopening a drawing, the dimension scalings are incorrect.



It seems 400 cm scales into 4 (units) and 350 cm shows as 35. I cannot seem to find what scaling option to change to get it back to show centimeters.

In drawing preferences, general scale and  length factor are both set to 1. Main drawing unit is cm.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Iirc, there was an issue with that which is solved meanwhile.
There should be an option in Current Drawing Preferences in Dimensions tab.
It is called Linear zeros in current version, I think its name is the same or similar in 2.1.0.
When there remove right is checked, zeros behind the point should be removed.
The issue was, that all zeros on the right were removed, what is wrong of course.
So you can try to uncheck this or update to a newer version, e.g. 2.1.3 or latest nightly build.

Thanks, upgrading to 2.2.0-alpha version helped getting the scaling correct again.

In print preview mode, the dimension now show correctly, but in drawing mode I only see empty boxes.

drawing mode:


print preview:


Same goes for any text in the drawing. I'm using unicode and  text style standard in drawing settings.

Any thoughts, what might be the reason for this?

In the 2.2.0 version it's by purpose to show text simplified as boxes when very small in relation to the screen, and so hardly can be read anyway, to speed up screen rendering. When you zoom in the text should appear. You seem to have a high resolution screen, maybe there is a problem with this.

I suspect draft mode:
https://forum.librecad.org/text-not-showing-tp5717293p5717294.html
https://forum.librecad.org/only-empty-boxes-frames-are-shown-for-image-text-no-line-thickness-td5706737.html

Indeed, in this case it was draft mode that was accidentially enabled.

Thanks for your help!

Tomas

Seems white space around the units is done poorly too. Probably should be a proportion of actual font used rather than hard-coded. Might also apply to some of the other settings.

You are a god........ just spent hours on my first LibreCAD project and all of a sudden half of the dimensions changed from x00mm to just x. Wasnt even aware of your solution and certainly didn't change but when I checkecked yourr suggestion the box was ticked...no idea how or why but untickked it and all is right with the world again..........Many Thanks

p.s. this was version 2.1.3