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RE: Dimension styles

Posted by jep1955 on Dec 22, 2017; 12:10am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Dimension-styles-tp5715598p5715614.html

Finally getting around to responding.

 

Architectural drawings (ANSI) are typically either C, D or E size.  (18x24, 24x36, and 36x48 for architectural – engineering is slightly smaller based on multiples of 8.5x11).  Typical scales would be 1/8” = 1’ or 1/4” = 1’  (1:96 and 1:48).  Depends a bit on the size of the job.  A lot of residential is on C while small commercial is often D and large commercial would be E.

 

Setting overall dimension scale to 1 and setting the other values worked much better.  In drawing mode or print preview, there are still a few things that could be nicer, but I can live with this.

 

No matter how I set scales for Arrow/Tick Line Thickness, the ticks are still skinny.  I can’t get fatter ticks.  But I can live with that.

 

The gap for the dimension text is almost correct, but should be a bit wider as it actually touches the number on the left side and looks correct on the right side only because the “ for inches is above the center so the line doesn’t touch it.

 

Is there a way to send screenshots here?

 

There are a couple of fonts I may experiment with.  As long as open source, if they work, I will supply them.

 

All I need is an architectural set of fixtures! 

 

Oh – if I modify the block that is in the block list, will all blocks update by any chance?

 

 

 

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From: dellus [via LibreCAD] <ml+[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 4:33:48 PM
To: jep1955
Subject: RE: Dimension styles
 
Line thickness is shown right on screen in drawing mode only at a scale of 1:1.
As you do architectural drawings you will have a much smaller scale, and you can see the proper look only in the print preview mode. It is best to make yourself a template with the dimensioning settings you like, and then use it for future new drawings and adjust to a different scale with "General Scale". You don't have to change the other values any more. Except for "Fixed Length" extension lines if you use that, these sadly do not respond to "General Scale". Is there a good reason for that?
Some time ago I have tried to make a template for architecture in inches as unit. I have no knowledge about standard architectural scales in the imperial world (US), so i choose 1:96 as it's closest to metric standard 1:100. Probably wrong. I include it here so you may have a look at it. Maybe you could make a template for other American fellows, there often are questions on that in the forum.
arch_inch_1_96_letter.dxf

Concerning fonts, in the main LibreCAD program folder there is a ttf2lff.exe. With this you can turn a windows ttf font to a LC lff font. But it only makes an outline. If you take a quite "sticky" font it might look acceptable. I have tried it out prior to writing this and got an error "freetype6.dll not found", but I remember to have had it working some time ago. You may play with this.      


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