How to edit a dimension length and grow an existing dimension?

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Hi,
V5
Every article seems all about editing text size etc, I want to alter a dimension Length from e.g. 3.57 inch to 3.95 inch.
Now I could create a whole new dimension starting at the same place as the one I wish to alter, then delete the former, but is there a way of simply entering the new value and seeing the existing dimension grow its length ?

Useful when its tricky to locate the start point of the dimension, other objects attracting my snap in that area.

This for V5

Steve

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You can use _Scale1D , maybe?

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Hi,
I cant get that to work,
also trying to pause the video to get to see each step, it sets it back to start.
I am doing this:-

  1. select dimension and turn points on,
  2. select transform scale 1D
  3. select the one control point at start of dim,
  4. enter the new value, hit enter nothing happens.

Steve

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3a. Select the second point at the end of dim

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Curious why we can’t just edit the value of the dimension. It would be so easy: click a dimension, edit the length value and it updates. If I can create a dimension of specific length when I first draw the dimension why not be able to edit the dimension length directly.

Especially annoying since when you hover the scale axis of the gumball it says it is using “Scale1D”, but the Scale1D there behaves differently to normal Scale1D. There it takes a scale factor, while Scale1D the command takes 2 points and a distance.

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Using Scale1D is literally the same steps as just drawing a new dimension.

It would be great to have a quicker way to just change the length of a dimension.

Something like:

Double-click dimension
Choose anchor point
Enter new length
Enter

That would be less clicks and I don’t have to find or type the command first.

Thanks for considering!