Posted by RobbieT on Jun 21, 2020; 11:16pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/My-dimension-text-values-keep-changing-tp5719125.html

I'm a new user - a total beginner with any kind of CAD software but have to do some scale drawings at 1:50 scale for a planning application.  I am struggling with labelling the dimensions on my drawings.  I originally wanted the measurement text to be in meters to 2 decimal places, so I set this up in application preferences and drawing preferences, but the drawing was so small that I had to change everything to mm (I was using commands - pl and l).  I then used da to draw the dimension values and had to enter the values in mm as putting in meters only labelled a fraction of the dimension (which was annoying, as I had a label of 38,000mm instead of 3.8m, but I thought I would just have to live with it).  I then did another drawing in mm, having set all the preferences to mm, but that is labelling in cm, even though I used mm to enter the values using da.  One value has even come out in decimeters!  Please can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  And I would be really grateful if you could explain as simply as possible - I have searched the forum for an answer and can barely understand most of the responses!

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