Hide dimensions text

Dave R

If you are just editing the dimension text manually, just use a space. No apostrophes. That would be a catastrophe.

KeeneAnderson

That works perfect! Saved me from a catastrophe. Thanks again!

TIG

If I had put a space alone without the '' you wouldn't have seen it, and if I typed it as 'space' you'd have typed it
BTW IF you want to revert to the actual dimension add <>
If you want to add text AND the actual dimension use TEXT <> and the <> part is auto-replaced with the dimension in current units.

jgb

Simpler yet, just put all your text/dimension objects on a separate Documentation layer. That way you can turn them on or off at will.

Dave R

@jgb said:

Simpler yet, just put all your text/dimension objects on a separate Documentation layer. That way you can turn them on or off at will.

How do you separate the dimension text from the arrows?

jgb

@dave r said:

@jgb said:

Simpler yet, just put all your text/dimension objects on a separate Documentation layer. That way you can turn them on or off at will.

How do you separate the dimension text from the arrows?

Good point; I thought he meant all of the dim.

I will slink off now....

TIG

You can't layer a dim's geometry and text separately.
However, layering dims/text IS a very useful tool...
To 'hide' a dim's text, but leave its line/arrows you have to replace the dim's text with a space ' '...
OR make/find/install a custom ttf font where all the characters are 'blank' and then use that font for your [selected] dims [temporarily], so they are not visible [but retain their text, with not further editing needed].
Later on you can swap back to a standard font - say 'Arial' - which makes the dim's text visible again...

jgb

I started to play with this, however limited that is.

One partial solution (sort of!) is to make the text 1 point or .001 in high. That effectively makes the text almost invisible (looks like a small line) but, and a big but... the arrowheads also disappear.

TIG

Get a 'blank ttf' Font... This 'Invisble.ttf' is OK. The 'infinity' symbol is its visible character [tiny dot]...Invisible.zip

jgb

This would be ideal to hide copyright notices within the model.

See topic.....

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=42399&p=379799#p379799

Dave R

@jgb said:

This would be ideal to hide copyright notices within the model.

See topic.....

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=42399&p=379799#p379799