dimension leader lines

[kdietz]

When I dimension a radius, the dimension displays at an angle. It used to have a leader line and display horizontally but someone else made some changes to my computer and I am not able to figure out how to set it back to where the leader lines come back.


Another thing is when I do a verticle dimension, the dimension displays vertically, again with no leaderline like I used to have.I want the dimension to be horizontal.


Does anyone know what I need to change?

 

[megaladon]

that sounds whacked


either you have a bug or you might be the butt of a good joke dunno


i cant think of a config option that would do that


maybe upload a pic of some problem areas

 

[kdietz]

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[robertib]

If the dimensions are correct in an older drawing, try this:


open the older drawing.


right-click on the background of the drawing & select properties.


this brings up the drawing options - there is a save button, so save as something like drawing.dtl in a directory you can find easily.


open your new drawing


right-click on the background of the drawing & select properties


use the folder button to browse for your drawing.dtl file & apply the changes.


to ensure that new drawings (not usingdrawing templates) use these settings there is an option in the config.pro drawing_setup_file -> point it to your drawing.dtl file.

 

[dr_gallup]

I believe the .dtl setting is:

text_orientation horizontal

This will have the (possibly undesireable) affect of turning ALL dimension text horizontal including vertical dimensions. I wish there were another way as I hate the look of horizontal text in vertical dimensions!