HI There– Using Rhino V 8
In model space I need to set a lot of dimensions in a drawing and I’m perplexed about how to set “global” dimension properties in Rhino?
In Autocad you can set a desired dimension values; scale, font, tics, etc. once to fit (for example) a 1/4 " = 1 foot drawing and then forget it and start placing dimensions as needed. You can also apply preset dimension variables then change all dimensions values at once in a given file to match.
In Rhino it seems I have to draw each dimension much to large and then resize everything associated in properties every time. Very counter productive and takes more time than the drawing work. Is there a global setting for dimensions? if so what is it called and how does it work? The HELP does not seem to address this. The videos I find tend to focus on making individual dimension changes, but not how to set global dimension values. When I look this up in the forums It seems no one has an answer and all refer to Older version like Rhino 4 and 5.
Ideally I’d like to preset dimension variables then I could apply to any Drawing file, but If I need to preset something for each Drawing file that’s ok too.
I did find this one “Script” made by “H**elvetosaur**” called “ChangeAnnotationStyle.py” But I have no Idea how to put it to use.
Go the Drafting> Edit Annotation Styles to modify globally.
Also note that in the Annotation Dialog there are global option check boxes regarding Scaling (sizes change or stay the same when zooming in Model or Layout)
In DimSample-1 I’ve created a drawing file using the Rhino template “Large Objects - Inches, Feet & Inches.3dm”, added some boxes, added some Dimensions and a Leader at a corner called “Corner”, and text called “Text Sample”.
Using “Properties” I see a text height of “0.125” on all.
What is the text heightunit? how is it being measured? Is that Inches? Feet? is it relative to something else or an absolute value? I’m looking for a reliable means of calculating results before making changes as I been able to do In Autocad.
IN DimSample-2, created as a copy of DimSample-1, I’ve changed dimension text size and fonts randomly. For this example I would like to know how to reset all of them at once to the Font; “Arial”, Set a size height that is half of the original height as represented by “0.125”, and change “fit Text” to “Inside” instead of Auto. Note that I have not be able to change “Fit text” at all?
Note; I have drawing files that have many random dimension attributes as a result of having being imported to Rhino from various sources. My goal is to reset them all to be a consistent Size and Font and “Fit text” result without having to change them one by one. So far I’ve not been able to accomplish that. They seem to change inconsistently.
When importing from autocad i recommend first using the SelAnnotationStyle command and go through and move the various dimension styles to the one you created/prefer.
