It is really difficult to create an angled dimension in layouts without creating unneeded geometry, it would be really great if I could pick an edge and draw a dynamic line for the opposing side of the angle. I tried using the points option but it doesn’t seem to work very well.
Thanks,
Don
Hi Don- what is not working with the Points option? Where does it break down?
thanks,
-Pascal
For me, I often have to trace the geometry in layout space (and then sometimes hide the detail) to pull a dimAngle. It can be hard to get picks to work successfully while in layout space.
My other hope is you get the tick direction sorted out as well. It seems more often than not, the tick direction will be reversed (compared to any other dim) when pulling a DimAngle.
Hi Don- this is what I see:
Does that make sense with what you want to do?
-Pascal
So, apparently when I hit the Tab key to constrain a direction it is killing the DimAng command some how. Seems to work as long as I don’t do that.
Thanks,
Don
I am not having any trouble with Tab here so far…
-Pascal
Are you trying any of this in layouts?
Don
Yes, there as well- clearly there is something you are trying to accomplish that I am missing with my tests.
-Pascal
Hy Pascal,
I was posting a bug about dimangle and layouts and found that this can be linked to this post.
Attached some screenshots of what happens.
In layout the reference points we click to obtain the dimension are offsetted to another place.
Probably the layout’s origin is offsetted than the viewport’s one…
Hi Lucio- I can reproduce this one- thanks.
Bug item, for future reference:
http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-23182
-Pascal