Hello,
Adding this here as an official user request for Rhino development team.
The ability to offset dimension value text and showcase a “leader” from the dimension value to the dimension stringer as is available in other CAD based software such as Revit.
More reading and prototype:
Ideally we, as the users, would be able to toggle the following settings (in my mind):
- leader style: 0=Arc, 1=Fillet, 2=Polyline(like your example @screamer), 3=Euclidean (straight line A to B), and 4=Manhattan Distance(Think, always getting a right angle)
- leader text position: 0=Automatic, 1=Bottom, 2=Middle, 3=Top
- leader text underline/extension: yes/no (what you show @screamer, with the leader extending to underline the extents of the text)
Attached is an R8 Grasshopper script mocking up a rough implementation of the curved leader idea.
The arc portion of the logic could be easily enough replaced with a polyline, Euclidean distance line, or Manhattan distance line. And a fillet radius could soften the polyline and Manhattan implementations.Graph Space:
Video:
dimension_text_offset_leader_arc_example_script_01a.gh (26.4 KB)
Additional reading/topic:
Thank you for your consideration!