Re: Inside-horizontal dimensions
Posted by
sankey on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Inside-horizontal-dimensions-tp5715827p5715873.html
dellus wrote
Hello sankey,
it seems you are a specialist for dimensions. Maybe you could help with an issue.
Perhaps I'm a specialist in only the specific parts of the code which I studied :)
dellus wrote
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.
I'm unfamiliar with architectural drafting style, but I trust you that this is a bug. This is probably within my ability to fix, I will take a look.
I have a general question about your approach. I've been using LibreCAD for dimensioning small and medium sized parts for mechanical systems, usually a 1:1 to 1:5 scale on US Letter paper. When I need to dimension a 1:5 part, I scale the drawing to 20% first, then set the dimension "Length Factor" to 5 (in Drawing Preferences -> Dimensions). Does this not work for architecture?