I’m working on a typical job which has 12 sections through kitchen cabinets. The geometry is similar but not identical (some cabinets w/ drawers, some w/ doors, etc.). So my standard practice is to create one section complete with dimensions and annotations and then copy it 12 times, revising only those elements that are unique.
Currently I don’t actually work in V6 because of the sort of issues shown in the attached jpg. I never quite know what has history and what doesn’t, or what controls history. Moving the 3 rectangles vertically doesn’t produce a problem but moving it laterally leaves behind one dimension - but only for the original group, not for the group copied upwards.
This is a simple group of 3 rectangles for demonstration only. One of my actual sections might have 10 - 20 dimensions plus an equal number of annotations so chasing down all the wonky issues isn’t realistic.
My vote would be for history to be off by default.
Hi Alex - SelDim and HistoryPurge would be one sort of heavy handed way - obviously if you need some historic dimensions, then you’ll need to be more selective than that…
My 2 cents on that: if you want to use layouts and separate dimensions from models - i.e. place dimensions on the layout in paper space whereas the model is in model space - you will need something like that. If you zoom or pan in a detail and the dimensions in paper space don’t follow behind, you’ll be redoing dimensions over and over again.
It keeps the model clean, and dims intended for one detail (say the plan) don’t infect another (say a F.S.D.). I think the real question is how on earth do you dimension in model space
Rendered images of the project out of Thea or V-Ray
3D line drawings for general notes comments, etc. created in Make2D (no dimensions)
2D orthographic drawings (plan, elevation, sections, details, etc.) for detailed dimensions and annotations created in Make2D
There is a constant shifting around and re-positioning of elements in order to arrive at an optimum page layout so dimensions that are attached to something other than the geometry would drive me crazy.
@wim - I’ve made some changes so that snapping to previously placed dimensions won’t break the whole operation. For this week’s WIP, snapping to linear dimensions is fixed, and the rest didn’t quite make it in until next time.
Hi Camelworks - I’m not sure what your whole workflow is here - are you saying you can fix the previous cases, from your orgiinal post, by snapping the points again? If you start from scratch with all new dimensions, does everything work as expected now?
That seems to be working fine, thanks!
Semantics maybe, but when I have a rectangle with two dimensions and I move that rectangle, the command line echoes:
A follow up on this one…
The attached file was made in the latest public Beta. Is ‘next time’ still in the future or should I expect this to work now?
As a recap of the background:
The dimensions on the rectangle on the left were made by just snapping to whatever snap comes up - the dimensions on the rectangle on the right were made by making very sure that snaps went to the end points of the rectangle. When moving or rotating both rectangles, the dimensions on the right follow as they should but that doesn’t happen on the left. Not even for linear dimensions. 2017-11-17 Dim snapping.3dm (65.4 KB)
@Wim - It looks like on the left, the vertical and nearly vertical dimensions have one point each connected to the rectangle with history, and the other two don’t have any history connection.
When I move the dimensions one at a time, only two of them issue history break warnings.
Snapping one dimension to another dimension seems to work right here.
