Dimension line offset

Rogue · 11 Aug 2010, 13:07

Is there a way of offsetting the dimension line further from the object.
I have tried selecting the dimension and scaling it away using the arrows,
but the dimensions tend to change when i do that.

Gaieus · 11 Aug 2010, 14:03

You can manually edit all dimensions. There could be two ways (the first one is rather cumbersome)

The second one would be more straightforward:

and after setting it, you can sample its style and apply it to all your other dimensions (even better; save it to your scrapbook and you can sample > apply it any time in other documents as well)

utiler · 11 Aug 2010, 23:05

This should be able to be set as a default don't you think?

Gaieus · 12 Aug 2010, 12:45

Well, as I do not use LO "professionally" (unless posting in the forums is a "profession"), I do not have my own templates with all the bells and whistles but I am pretty sure it could be done with a custom template.

However let's hope that in some upcoming, new version in the future this will be made easier.

utiler · 12 Aug 2010, 23:11

We can only hope.....

bjanzen · 1 Sept 2010, 23:24

LayOut 3 out today... it's there. We added a point to the line - there's now a connection point and an offset point.

b

Gaieus · 5 Sept 2010, 17:50

@bjanzen said:

LayOut 3 out today... it's there. We added a point to the line - there's now a connection point and an offset point.

b

Well, you never know what comes next...

(I remember last time a painful workaround and png printing issue and when LO 2 came out, you were the first to suggest that png outpuit was then already available)