@krisidious said:

you keep double clicking on the extension line until it is highlighted. then you set the number on the corresponding tick editor to .o2.

Hi,

I find that setting the extension line to anything higher than 0 (with 0 not being avaliable as an option in the rollout) still shows a line, allthough a very thin one. I came up with a solution to set the color opacity to 0% thus making the extension line invisible. It is still there, but you can't see it, which is fine with me

Does anybody know if the start and end arrows are located somewhere as image files which one could replace (hack LO so to speak)? Or is it all unaccessable within the binary code?

Cheers
Mikar

P.S. @admins: If this thread is unappropriate for the feature wish list please feel free to move it to where it might belong.

@krisidious said:

extension lines can be turned off... edit one dimension and dropper it to save. create template with saved style. or use a scrapbook. leaders? not so much.

Hi,

how do I turn it off? I tried to edit and delete it (that doesn't work), I tried to make it 0 points wide (only minimum 0,2 pts possible), I colored it white (interferes with other linework). I run out of ideas. Please tell me how to do it.

Regards
Mikar

Hi,

to whom it may concern: please make that the extension lines can be turned off completely and that one can use custom made start and end arrows on the dimension lines.

Thanks
Mikar

Hi all,

thanks for your input, which made me find out what happened. After dimensioning something in the middle of a floorplan and moving the offset points outside of the plan manually (so that the extension lines wouldn't cut through the plan) LO somehow took the distance between connection point and offset point as default. Then, when dimensioning something along the outside of the plan, this new default distance (which was quite long) led to inverting the extension line.

I wish one could turn off the extension lines completely and have custom made start and end arrows on the dimension lines, then I wouldn't have to bother with extension lines cutting through the plan and need to shorten them manually.

Regards
Mikar

Hello Sonder,

thanks for the idea with using helplines and dimensioning those. Works fine but as you said needs some extra thinking regarding paper scale and model scale. I came up with a solution by dimensioning an exploded copy of the SU model on a seperate layer, which flattens the elevation drawing and therefore eliminates any snapping into the depth of the model yielding angled dimensions.

Regards
Mikar

Hi everbody,

I am trying to put some dimensions into an elevationplan. But the dimensioning tool seems to snap somewhere inside the depths of the SU model yielding incorrect results (see image, dimension should be 2.80). This happens almost all the time and is a real pain. (The flipped extension lines problem I posted seperatly).

How can I make LO snap correctly?

Thanks for any help.

Regards
Mikar

Hi everybody,

I have trouble with the extensionlines. When I pull out dimensions from my drawing the extension lines show away from the model. In a new file this does not happen. What's wrong with my drawing? How can I fix this? (I mean in general... I know who to edit the lines manually).

Any help is much apreciated.

Thanks
Mikar

Thank you, very nice and interesting.

Cheers
Mikar

These are my steps:

I open SU, set Length Units in Model Info to "Decimal m", create a box 1 x 1 x 1 m, make the box a component, click generate report html --> dimensions are reported as 39.37008x39 x 39.37008 x 39.37008 (inch) and not as 1 x 1 x 1 (meters).

Cheers
Mikar

Hi,

the topic says it all. Although the model units are set to meter a generated report yields everything in inches.

Cheers
Mikar

Hi all,

when I nudge dimensions perpendicular to their dimension line in order to place them a bit more away from or towards the model the dimension text goes crazy. "3,00m" suddenly becomes "~0,02m" and so forth.

I there a propper way to move dimensions perpendicular to their dimension line without destroying the contents?

Cheers
Mikar

Thank you guys, it all worked like a charm! Great!

Cheers
Mikar

Hi folks,

I am creating a model of a house from a matched photo. The photomatching worked fine. But the size of the house - when modeled onto the photo - is only a few centimeters. When I scale the house to its actual size it no longer fits with the photo, the matching seems lost. Obviously I need to adjust or scale the previously matched camera in some way, too, so that photo and model match again. Please, how do I do that?

I searched several online tuts on the topic with no result. Any help on the correct workflow is much appreciated.

Cheers
Mikar

Cool, thanks a lot!

Mikar

Hi everybody,

is it possible to select a single edge and make it invisible (not deleting it)?

cheers
Mikar

Ah, I see the problem has already been discussed widely on this forum and a few workarounds have been suggested (like drawing guidelines in SU in order to place dimensiongrafics manually in LO).

Thanks
Mikar

Hi everybody,

I am very new to Layout and am trying to put dimensions onto an exploded view drawing.

In Sketchup the dimensionlines always align to the 3D model. This is what I want to achieve in Layout. But Layout seems to only allow vertical, horizontal or somewhat tilted (60°?) dimensionlines. Is this so?

I have attached an image to illustrate my problem. What do I need to do to get aligned dimensions within Layout similar to those in Sketchup? Is it possible?

Cheers
Mikar