circle dimension text in inches

Hello all,
I'm new to LibreCAD (and pretty excited), but ran into an issue immediately.

I set up the default to be inches, then drew a 2" radius circle. when I try to dimension this part, I see no text. If I set my unit to mm and redraw the part (50mm radius), then dimension it shows up fine.

I'm guessing this is a default text size issue? Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

Can you share a test case dxf file to show this issue? Using the tool box ( More -> Upload a file )

matt wrote

Hello all,
I'm new to LibreCAD (and pretty excited), but ran into an issue immediately.

I set up the default to be inches, then drew a 2" radius circle. when I try to dimension this part, I see no text. If I set my unit to mm and redraw the part (50mm radius), then dimension it shows up fine.

I'm guessing this is a default text size issue? Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

no_dim_inches.dxf

here is a file showing the issue

On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 07:34 -0700, matt [via LibreCAD] wrote:
> here is a file showing the issue
I went to Edit -> Current Drawing Preferences -> Dimensions and set the
"General Factor" to 1. The diameter now shows up as 4.

Cheers,

Buzz

buzz wrote

On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 07:34 -0700, matt [via LibreCAD] wrote:
> here is a file showing the issue
I went to Edit -> Current Drawing Preferences -> Dimensions and set the
"General Factor" to 1. The diameter now shows up as 4.

Cheers,

Buzz

Thanks, this works for me.

Question: it just shows "4"

How can I make it show 4.000 or 4.00 ?

On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 12:12 -0700, matt [via LibreCAD] wrote:
> Thanks, this works for me.

> Question: it just shows "4"
>
> How can I make it show 4.000 or 4.00 ?
I'm not sure about that one.

I found you can set the unit precision in Edit -> Current Drawing
Preferences -> Units, but it will not display trailing zero's. i.e. it
will display 1.4352 if that's the diameter of the circle but I can't
make it display 1.0000?

Cheers

Buzz

Do you mean you want it to display "1.0000", you get "1"

If so, just upgrade your LibreCAD to the latest release (2.0.7)

buzz wrote

On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 12:12 -0700, matt [via LibreCAD] wrote:
> Thanks, this works for me.

> Question: it just shows "4"
>
> How can I make it show 4.000 or 4.00 ?
I'm not sure about that one.

I found you can set the unit precision in Edit -> Current Drawing
Preferences -> Units, but it will not display trailing zero's. i.e. it
will display 1.4352 if that's the diameter of the circle but I can't
make it display 1.0000?

Cheers

Buzz