Re: Dimension styles
Posted by
jep1955 on
Jan 02, 2018; 10:59pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Dimension-styles-tp5715598p5715666.html
Most of what you say makes sense since (if I remember) on an old hand drawn blueprint, whether a C size or an E size, the same pencils would be used do line thickness would be... line thickness. In general, same with fonts I would expect.
Occasional crashes. If a dump is created, i can supply them? I’m running Windows 10 Pro on a Microsoft Surface Book Pro, ~3k x 2k resolution, and i5 CPU. 16Gb memory. I need to check if I’m running Intel or NVidia graphics with this.
I was playing with settings and the font may be unnecessarily large. The default for #of nodes and precision is not supplied, so I may be way overkill.
Realistically, I’m not really scaling. Scale to fit is ok. But there are two distinct aspect ratios (3:4 and 2:3) as you go up the A B C D E drawing size ladder. And, unfortunately, print to scale DOES (undesirably) scale everything including line thickness
and fonts (if you save a B size pdf but print with printer scaling as C size). And because of the two aspect ratios, I can’t easily simply switch back and forth. And B/C printing is most common for me. I have to admit, I don’t think any CAD package deals
with this specific problem.
Are there notes somewhere about general stability of any particular alpha build? I’m the QA manager for NIKON software, so I’m used to dealing with this!
In a dimension stack, can I modify the style of one individual dimension (too small to fit the text on the line)?
Thanks, and happy new year!
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On Jan 2, 2018, at 4:42 PM, dellus [via LibreCAD] <
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Thanks for providing the blueprint font. Good old hand drawn style. A disadvantage of these converted tff fonts is they are quite large in data size.
I'm a bit sceptical about your thought to place a downscaled drawing (or several ones) onto an unscaled papersize template. LibreCAD doesn't have a procedure for that, a workaround may be very complicated. Do you think of importing drawing files as a block,
which is scaled at inserting? When scaling a dimension line the text size doesn't get scaled. There also is a problem with hatchings disappearing after scaling. This has been cured to an extent in the 2.2.0 alpha series (nightlies). You might test this.
Also layer behaviour of the imported blocks may prove troublesome.
However, I'm curious about the results of your experiments. If you succeed you could provide a "how to".
Good luck