Posted by Victor_Wren on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Basic-Dimensioning-Functionality-tp5716062p5716074.html

I just generated that inside LibreCAD to give an example of the issues.  Basically I did a number of dimensioned concentric circles, then rearranged the text.  Ideally, the leader arrows would always point at the text (and from the other discussion, it looks like that is well in progress in Master).  The DXF imports of drawings I generated in ACAD are not quite so bad, but the dimension text can be quite far divorced from the actual leaders.  Let me grab an example...



Not nearly as bad as the version above that I deliberately screwed up, certainly, but less than ideal.  The 1-3/8 leaders look like it should be an inside dimension, and the 7/8 diameter an outside, but both text elements have been evicted.  In other parts of the drawing, the dimensions have flown off a goodly distance, and are displaced from the leader arrows enough that it's actually misleading as to which dimension belongs to which leader (which is kind of the opposite of the purpose of a mechanical drawing).  I expect some clean-up issues on import, and frankly, I think LibreCAD is doing a brilliant job (even ACAD doesn't always import its own DXF files nicely).  It doesn't help, I'm sure, that I'm actually having to process them through NanoCAD to get the DXF files, as I don't have access to ACAD at the moment.