Hi, V5 I have CAREFULLY replicated all the settings in V7 for the dims style. however drawing with the dim in V7, (not importing it !) sees the dim not central but way off to right. What setting have I overlooked as my line diagram shows those I have matched. Even if I missed one the default sho…

Steve, The V5 dimension you illustrate is considered bad practice: centred text should not extend beyond the extension lines. Once again, R7 gets it right: offsetting text that is too long to fit. HTH Jeremy

Hi Steve - [image] Steve1: What setting have I overlooked as my line diagram shows those I have matched. [image] -wim

Hi, Thanks. So whilst the auto in V5 placed dims central , the Auto in v7 upon opening V5 places them far right. A new dimension in a new v7 file I see is default auto and they appear centred, BUT AS I TRY DIFFERENT DIMS THEY FLIT BETWEEN CENTRED AND OFF TO RIGHT. There seems enough space to fit …

Hi, I far prefer (spade a spade NEED !!) the dims located midfield between the arrows as in V5 illustration, and certainly not the off to right of the 4 1/16 of V7. I have 5 months lost time dueto rebuld to win10 to catch up on somehow, so anything that threatens that now gets me going. As it is …

If you really want to do this, then change each Annotation Style so that the ‘Fit text’ option reads ‘Inside’ instead of ‘Auto’ - or whatever you have it set to. [image] Personally, I wouldn’t do this. Every time a dim doesn’t fit I would need to override the individual dim’s properties instead o…

another problem is that its moved too far to the side as i have grumbled in other topic about this [image] Dimension Text Placement when outside Dimension Line Rhino for Windows I have been able to move the text in these examples to where I want them (shown in red) but the…

Dimension sits midway arrows V5 yet way off to right V7

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Juan_Gallo March 21, 2023, 7:32am 7

another problem is that its moved too far to the side as i have grumbled in other topic about this

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Dimension sits midway arrows V5 yet way off to right V7

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