Horizontal dims text

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thecurlyjen
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Horizontal dims text

Post by thecurlyjen » Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:08 pm

Is there a way to rotate the label text on vertically aligned dims?
I'm attaching my own drawing and an example of what I'm trying to do.
Many thanks,
Jen
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Husky
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Re: Horizontal dims text

Post by Husky » Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:36 pm

Hi Jen - welcome to thw QCAD Forum.
thecurlyjen wrote:Is there a way to rotate the label text on vertically aligned dims?
No.


I would consider your idea more a kind of annotation - not as a dim feature. But you can use the Dim composition for this annotation.
Place the DIM, explode it and you can modify the single entities like text, arrows etc. as you need it.
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Re: Horizontal dims text

Post by thecurlyjen » Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:06 pm

Hi Husky,
Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for your time answering.
I prefer the dimension lines over the leaders; your suggestion works perfectly for me.
Jen

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