I would like a macro to increase/decrease the Model space scale.
Ideally would work as follows:
one macro to increase the scale by 25 each time it runs
one macro to decrease the scale by 25 each time it runs
I want to bind these macro’s to simple button (combinations)
Don’t know if this is possible:
if nothing is selected: change the general scale of the entire document, so change all dimensions at once
if one is selected: only change the scale of the selected dimension
All help is welcome, I’ve only tried to make a couple simple macro’s. I’m unsure how to do the +/- 25 thing. Also unsure about the second request… All help is welcome. Thanks in advance
My job involves creating drawings for logos etc. Which come in many different sizes and shapes, so very often the dimension text is so small it’s unreadable or too big it’s annoying. So I would like to have 2 shortcuts, one for scaling the dimension text up and the other for scaling down.
Hi Simon - It does not look like that setting is exposed for a macro. You can make things a little quicker if you know the dim style name with something like
Here is an old Rhinoscript from V5 that still works in V6. Interestingly enough, it is not possible in Python rhinoscriptsyntax, the scale method is missing…
I can probably tweak this somewhat to make it look for a particular dimstyle and use a particular scale if necessary - but I really hate going back to Rhinoscript…
If it’s not too much trouble, could you tweak this one just a little bit? Don’t bother looking for a particular style etc. The only change I want is following: The current script gives the user an input field to enter a dimension style. I just want the script to add 25 to the current value of model space scale. And then another script to detract 25 from the the current value.
So then I can bind each of the scripts to a button on my keyboard to incrementally increase/decrease the size of the dimensions.
(I can just barely make out what the script is doing, my programming skills are almost non-existant )
OK, here are a couple of scripts you can put on a button.
The first scales all dimstyles in the document by a fixed factor. Right now the scale factor is set at 2 - it doubles the scale on each run. You can change the factor by changing the number here:
The second increments the size as you requested. The increment is set at 10, you can change the increment by changing the number here:
The number in the first script must be positive (scale factor). Numbers greater than 1 will increase the size, less than 1 will decrease.
In the second script a positive number will increase the size, a negative number will decrease it. It will not allow a dimension factor to be reduced to a negative value.
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