Cannot align text to be inline with dimension line

Rhino Developer
1

The simple Python script below fails to create a dimension line if the line:

rs.DimStyleTextAlignment(rec_dims, 3)

is included. The error message is:

‘DimensionStyle’ object has no attribute ‘TextAlignment’

Without this line it works fine but the text is above the dimension line rather than inline as I wanted. What happened to the the DimStyleTextAlignment attribute? I am using the latest version of Rhino6. This also fails in the same way if I try using rhinocommon calls. I think I must have missed the memo about this.

import  rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
x0 = 182.9; x1 = 247.7
y0 = 592.
Xz0 = 0.0
rec_dims = rs.AddDimStyle('rec_dims')
rs.DimStyleArrowSize(rec_dims, 2.0)
rs.DimStyleExtension(rec_dims, 1.5)
rs.DimStyleTextHeight(rec_dims, 1.5)
rs.DimStyleTextAlignment(rec_dims, 3)

begin = x0, y0, Xz0
end = x1, y0, Xz0
point = x0, y0-2, Xz0
dl = rs.AddAlignedDimension(begin, end, point, rec_dims)

Regards,
Terry.

4

@dale,

Do you have any idea how I can get rs.DimStyleTextAlignment working? It seems to be broken for me in the latest version of Rhino6.

Regards,
Terry.

5

@Alain, is this something you can look into?

6

@dale, @Alain, @Helvetosaur,

Any idea how I can get rs.DimStyleTextAlignment
to work?

Regards,
Terry.

7

Still looking for a solution to this. Please help.

8

Hi Terry,

Dimension alignment has changed considerably in Rhino 6. Until rhinoscriptsyntax is revised you can align the text in the dimension line by replacing rs.DimStyleTextAlignment with:

...
import Rhino
...
ds.DimTextLocation = Rhino.DocObjects.DimensionStyle.TextLocation.InDimLine
doc.DimStyles.Modify(ds, ds.Id, False)
...
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