Help getting text to show horizontal to view in Front

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Help! Trying to use dimensioning of curve length for the first time and the text refuses to show in front view. It shows in top view only correctly. Grrr. Refuses to show correctly in Front. Can’t upload cause the file is too big. Would try to create a simpler file to show but trying to drain the swamp and haven’t got time. Any ideas?

I copied a section of the file to make something smaller.

Curve-dimension-problem.3dm (1.2 MB)

SystemInfo

Rhino 8 SR25 2025-11-10 (Rhino 8, 8.25.25314.11001, Git hash:master @ 305475a429872768e321960d34ed215b72a0da18)
License type: Commercial, build 2025-11-10
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 31GB)
.NET 8.0.21

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 10-9-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 581.57
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

Secondary graphics devices.
AMD Radeon™ Graphics (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 1-11-2024 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 5 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device!

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 10-9-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.8157
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Commands.rhp	“Commands”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\rdk.rhp	“Renderer Development Kit”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp	“Rhino Render”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\rdk_etoui.rhp	“RDK_EtoUI”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\NamedSnapshots.rhp	“Snapshots”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\MeshCommands.rhp	“MeshCommands”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\IronPython\\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp	“IronPython”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\RhinoCycles.rhp	“RhinoCycles”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Toolbars\\Toolbars.rhp	“Toolbars”	8.25.25314.11001
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\3dxrhino.rhp	“3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\Displacement.rhp	“Displacement”	
C:\\Program Files\\Rhino 8\\Plug-ins\\SectionTools.rhp	“SectionTools”
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Thank you for your feedback. I will confirm this issue with our development engineers later. As a temporary solution, you can use the Gumball to rotate it, which should allow it to display properly in different viewport, and for your reference.

3

Yes, I know I can rotate it. But I had 12 of them to do so rotating each and every one was a pain. I ended up calculating what I needed in a spreadsheet.

4

Please give it a try with BoxEdit, and fyi.


5

Thanks for that. It will help if there’s a next time. But I hope y’all keep working to get the display correct as it should be for that annotation.

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Hi Joe -

I’ve put that issue on the list as RH-90620 Annotation: Dim not on Active CPlane

In case you need to create more such annotations until this gets fixed, this works correctly when you use the “Type=Leader” option instead of “Type=Text”.
-wim

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Well, it does sometimes. I got it to work once. Trying again showed the leader arrow but it posted the numbers way way away to the left of the end of the leader. Crazy.

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Hi Joe -

That sounds like an annotation style issue and I’d need a 3dm file to be able check what’s going on.
-wim

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Here is an example. Note that the dimension connected to the leader closer to the middle of the curve is way off to the left. But in the attached file, it will be seen to be closer to the correct position. The movement happens when I save the file. Very strange. So that whole annotation feature needs to be corrected.

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image716×514 6.45 KB

DW-Gate2-252611.3dm (198.9 KB)

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RH-90620 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 27