Layout dimensions style problem

tgillespie · 19 Mar 2011, 17:57

I prefer the slash at the end of a dimension line. The default is the closed arrow. Once I engage the dimension tool, I change it to the slash, and that's what it shows in the dimension dialogue. However, when I dimension anything, it does it with the closed arrow. I then have to edit each dimension to change to the slash. This is really annoying and I can't find any way to lock my preference in, or even to have it dimension the way I want while I'm dimensioning. I don't have this problem in Sketchup, but I almost never dimension in Sketchup...Layout is the best place to do that, in my opinion. I'm using Sketchup 8 Pro on an XP Pro system.

Mitchel Stangl · 19 Mar 2011, 19:37

There are two ways to set the default.

Select the dimension tool, then go to the Dimension dialog box, and set up you preferences and then start dimensioning. The preferences will stay the way you set them. Most of us select the tool, use it, and notice it is not set up the way we like it.
If you have a dimension set up the way you like it. just select the paint tool and sample the properly set up dimension while holding down the ALT key (on the MAC, it may be different on a PC). Now you dimensioning defaults will be as the sampled dimension.

Good luck, Mitchel

make · 2 Apr 2011, 04:08

Where's the paint tool in Layout 8?

I didn't know there was one.

Cheers!

Gaieus · 2 Apr 2011, 11:22

It's not really a paint tool but a sample tool - similar to what the SU paint toll loks like when you press the Alt key (on Windows at least).