Posted by dellus on Apr 05, 2018; 2:18pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Inside-horizontal-dimensions-tp5715827p5715872.html

Hello sankey,
it seems you are a specialist for dimensions. Maybe you could help with an issue.
In the Drawings Preferences - Dimensions settings box you can tick "Fixed length" (Extension lines), that's used for architectural drawings.
At the top of the box we have "General scale". If you want a drawing with the scale 1:100, you write "100" into there, and all the values for text, positions and arrow / tick sizes are multiplied by 100 for the screen appearance and print out. So, for example, you can set the text height as 2.5 mm, which is the standard for an ordinary dimension, and it will always be printed out 2.5 mm high on paper, like in old times when you used a 2.5 mm stencil for that.
Just that stubborn "Fixed length" doesn't comply.
Is there a good reason for this? Is it too difficult to implement? If it is within your scope could you have a look at that? The coming major release 2.2 would be a good moment to fix this.

Not a developer, just a newbies'  questions answerer on the forum,

dellus