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    • J Offline
      Jim57
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      I've laid out circles on a plane in SU, and am dimensioning them in Layout.

      When dimensioning to the center of the circle, Layout measures the drawing, not the model (1/4" instead of 3")

      When dimensioning an orthogonal view from a center to a corner Layout returns the diagonal distance in 3-space (x + y + z) from the corner to the center.

      When measuring from center to center layout returns the drawing measurement.

      When dimensioning circles from edge to edge layout gives the model measurement, which would be great, except that it is from a nearby vertex instead of from the true size of the circle that the polygon is representing. In SUit is possible to enlarge and select to work with this, but in Layout it's a matter of making many guesses/ rounding the dimension. Sometimes it works, often it doesn't, always it takes time.


      Circles on a plane dimensioned in Layout

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        sfto1
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        LO struggles with orthographic views and subsequent dimensioning. IMO it is a shortcoming, but knowing this , there are ways to work-around this. Instead of dimensioning from center to corner, do the dimension from center to edge. It is not the way you would do it in ACAD, but it will work. Maybe the SU/LO team will address this shortcoming in future versions

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          ArCAD-UK
          last edited by

          +1 to sfto1's comments.

          If you are working on a section, avoid dimensioning to the model by creating a "group from slice", copy and then paste to a separate layer in LO.

          Alternatively set the scene in LO to vector and then explode it. This will "flatten" the view but it also removes any automatic updating or automatic scaling of dimensions.

          Just a couple of ideas for your workflow.

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