A few more Layout observations
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@unknownuser said:
I wish we could control the dimension line distance from the object to the start of the line. In my opinion, it is too far away, and I would like to be able to make them touch and set that as the default behavior.
Something like this?
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Yes, just like that. How do you set that as the dimension default?
To get that look, I have been placing the dimension and then using the move tool to stretch the legs until they contact the geometry.
Hopefully, I have just missed a setting somewhere.
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That's how I did it, too. Then you just sample this "style"and can apply it to other dimensions, too. And throughout that session even newly added dimensions remain this way.
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Not sure what you mean by sample the style and apply to other dimensions.
And nothing I have done has made a new dimension maintain this look.
Thanks
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One-shot sample (see shortcuts) - select your dimension, type "s", sample another line / dimension / shape, and you pick up that style. After you sample, the defaults for the dimension tool should be set to your new style.
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That is a pretty sweet function; thanks for clarifying.
What about hatchings? To my mind, that is the biggest difference between LO output and Autcad output. My foundation plan would be a lot less confusing if I could hatch the stem walls.
I know I could chase around the foundation making a polygon that i could lightly fill with grey, but that isn't the same thing at all.
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Some people have created hatching using a SketchUp model with clipping mask in LayOut.
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Thanks for that tip, Barry, but that is more of a work around than an efficient work flow solution, IMO.
I wish I could select a face, with LO, and apply a hatch pattern to it, especially nice if LO shipped with a library of hatches as well as a way to create our own, kind of like style builder.
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When I "Move" the legs of a dimension, I lose the correct "scale". It gives the page scale instead of using the scale factor. If I undo the move, I get it back.
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BTW - I e-mailed Susan and I think we got this straightened out. For everyone, Dimensions in LO 3 have an attachment point and an offset point. In LO 2.1, they only had an attachment point. This was a feature added from customer feedback about being able to control the distance between where the dimension was attached and where the line actually started. We had a hack in 2.1 where you could set an offset point size to do this, but it wasn't very elegant.
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Barry, I apologize. I forgot that I had posted here and I really should have come back and shared the information you provided. Oversight. So sorry.
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I totally agree with line dimension control. I have a lot of problems with that, even when I'm just creating a model. It does seems to long. The scrapbook schedule does seem like a good idea, but I think you can already do something like that? I think it's somewhere under View.
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@unknownuser said:
That is a pretty sweet function; thanks for clarifying.
What about hatchings? To my mind, that is the biggest difference between LO output and Autcad output. My foundation plan would be a lot less confusing if I could hatch the stem walls.
I know I could chase around the foundation making a polygon that i could lightly fill with grey, but that isn't the same thing at all.
Mate another simple workaround for hatching.
- In layout create your own hatch pattern using the line tool,
- Export this page as PNG file so the background is alpha,
- Import this to your later LO docs or add to scrapbook and create clipping mask to mask out!
It would be a great addition IF layout could clip it's own objects ie: A clipping mask could clip an "in document" created hatch - not a perfect senario but pretty darn close!
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Thanks for the great tip, Richard; it is much appreciated!
Hopefully, that makes things a bit easier, though a ton of hatching patterns installed with LO would be great, too.
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