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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
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      Yeah. You're right. All dimensions get changed in SU when you change units in Model Info. I figured you knew that and were referring to LO. πŸ˜‰

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      • KrisidiousK Offline
        Krisidious
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        When I first worked in SU I used Autocad to draft. Then after I think 2013 Layout came out I made the move to SU/Layout and I have not looked back. I never really dimensioned anything in SU... I found it clunky and unreliable. I often wished and still do, for a SU/Ruby drafting solution that could be more versatile than Layout and be open source for new ideas.

        By: Kristoff Rand
        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
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          Kristoff, the thing you should be looking forward to is more and better dimensioning tools in LO. That's the better place to be putting in dimensions.

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          • KrisidiousK Offline
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            Is it? I dream of nodes and auto-dimensioning (to an extent)... Smart dims that knew what we were doing, vertical, horizontal, 2D and 3D. Real symbol libraries and a direct connection to BIM info that doesn't have to have Layout open and go back and forth to check stuff as you go, not fix it work after modeling. Smart full vector hatches. This place has trained me to expect the impossible from Ruby and the Plugin Authors. Ok, back to Earth now... I think I flew too close to the Sun.

            By: Kristoff Rand
            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
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              If you look at where the development has been as far as dimensions are concerned, you'll nothing has changed in SU in years. In fact I don't think there's been any changes to it at least since before V3. LO has gotten many improvements though. I'm only guessing but I imagine we'll see other improvements in LO2016.

              There have been other improvements in text such as Auto Text which I leverage in every LO project, now. Most of the labels in that plan I posted the other day were auto-filled. Maybe we'll get radial dimensions and other cool stuff soon.

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              • KrisidiousK Offline
                Krisidious
                last edited by

                yeah I could handle anything really...

                By: Kristoff Rand
                Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                • S Offline
                  swasacase
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                  I use dual dimensioning all the time. I'm just starting to use LO more frequently, and starting to get away from Turbocad. I hope the developers make a dual dimension tool. Dimensioning everything twice over is very time consuming


                  Dual Dim Sample.pdf

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                  • sdmitchS Offline
                    sdmitch
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                    @auchifai said:

                    Recently I was requested by my client to put both mm and inch as the unit for all the dimensions. I tried to find some way to do it but eventually what I did is to use mm as the model unit and type all units in inch with 3D text. It works but of course it is not efficient. I just wonder if anyone knows how can I do it better? I am enclosing an image of my work here for your reference. Thanks!
                    [attachment=1:2hchdrnf]<!-- ia1 -->temp.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2hchdrnf]

                    mod = Sketchup.active_model
                    ent = mod.active_entities
                    txt = ent.grep(Sketchup;;DimensionLinear)
                    for t in txt
                     dim = (t.text.to_f/25.4).round(1)
                     t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"\")"
                    end
                    

                    Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                    http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                    • Dave RD Offline
                      Dave R
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                      Cool! How hard to make it go the other way with metric in the parentheses?

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                      • sdmitchS Offline
                        sdmitch
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                        @dave r said:

                        Cool! How hard to make it go the other way with metric in the parentheses?

                        mod = Sketchup.active_model
                        ent = mod.active_entities
                        txt = ent.grep(Sketchup;;DimensionLinear)
                        units = Sketchup.active_model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"]
                        for t in txt
                         case units
                          when 2
                           dim = (t.text.to_f/25.4).round(1)
                           t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"\")"
                          when 0
                           dim = (t.text.to_f*24.5).round(0)
                           t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"mm)"
                         end
                        end
                        
                        

                        Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                        http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                        • JQLJ Offline
                          JQL
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                          And is it very hard to put it in Sketchucation Plugin Store?

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                          • sdmitchS Offline
                            sdmitch
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                            @jql said:

                            And is it very hard to put it in Sketchucation Plugin Store?

                            No, the hard part is trying to anticipate all the combinations of units that will be wanted.

                            A new version that is accessed through the Context Menu. What makes the most sense?


                            Dual Dimensions.gif

                            Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

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                            • KrisidiousK Offline
                              Krisidious
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                              Tig has written a dual dim tool for SU... does everyone here know that?

                              http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=62033

                              By: Kristoff Rand
                              Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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