Can You Get Around DimDiameter's Projection?

Rhino
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DimDimension always projects a circle to the CPlane, which outputs an incorrect diameter. Is there any way to get around this?

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The original layout is flat on the CPlane (left circle) and is flowed to the destination (right circle). I tried to flow the dimension with the same curve but Flow will not accept a dimension type.

Example file from screenshot:
DimDimension.3dm (195.6 KB)

BTW, this would be my ideal dimension. I can do it manually with a text block, but then it wouldn’t be tied to the circle for history, be prone to typos, etc:

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Hi Eric - you can kind of get there with a macro


! _CPlane _Object _Pause _DimDiameter _Pause _Pause _CPlane _Undo

Unfortunately CPlane > Object seems not to accept preselected curves though so there is extra clicking.

-Pascal

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Yeah, this is a highly repetitive thing at the end of a job.

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I’ll have to figure out a way to script something.