I find the references come anyway and are easy to snap without shift, In fact so many references--some of which I don't think I'll ever figure out, some arcane trig relationships I guess.

@mikar said:

Great tips (an so much effort put into explaining)! Thank you all very much!

@joe wood said:

Thanks Dave! I never knew you could r click again and choose 90*! That'll be very handy!

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again a D'oh!- moment for me and I join in these thanks 👍 😄

Ah, I see! Thank you for explaining!

Cheers
Mikar

My sincere condolences to those who will adopt this ^ vid

Thank you very much!

Hi TIG,

thank you very much! I missed deleting the rb file and deleted only the plugin's folder and subfolder files. After deleting the rb everything is gone just like I wanted. The plugin was gkware stairmaker btw., sorry for not mentioning that, thought it wouldn't make a difference.

Cheers
Mikar

Yes, it must have been the Mac color wheel. Pity it is not that big on the PC. As I like to eyeball the colors I find the RGB sliders not very intuitive for choosing colors. Maybe I'll pick colors in PS and type the RGB values into SU.

This feature is already available. Try: windows-entity info
edit: stupid me - your question was about layout - not SketchUp. Thankfully already answered by somebody else.

Thank you! The fog tool was what I needed.

cheers
Mikar

If you reaaally want to change the dimension style, you could do it in SketchUp:

create a dynamic component with your custom endpoint and a dimension line without endpoints scale the dynamic component in 1 direction - the value of the dimension will update accordingly copy and repeat

If your endpoint is just a perpendicular line, scaling won't affect it and it will look ok. If your endpoint is anything else, scaling will affect it and it will look messy. If you are into Ruby, you could make a nice plugin out of it that will rescale the endpoints accordingly to look 'normal' again though.

dimComponent.skp

Mikar - this is why I use standardized templates for each drawing type. The scales are preset. You should have your model set to scale obviously and then your dimension tool set to that same scale.

Exploding the SU model for me would take up too much time due to the file size.

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

Thank you, very nice and interesting.

Cheers
Mikar

@scruff said:

Dave's is the only response that actually deals with the question

As you like, isn't one satisfying answer not enough?

Cool, thanks a lot!

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