So it sounds like you have a file written by a version of Rhino before the WIP that went out last Tuesday. Is that right?
The part about text not showing should be completely gone for v5 files written with the current WIP.
And the scale testing I did was with the current WIP also.
If you have either of those problems with the current version, I still have more to figure out.
it was a v5 version opened in v6 to test the text , it was not complete
origin v6 but we have done a lot in v6 with this file , we hade gone
back to v5 to do some other things with and i opened again after a while
with v6 … looks good , but after saving as v5 problem then
Now when i open a v5 rhino same as you have , in V6 it looks ok , when i
save a part (as you have) as a v5 small , and i open it in V5 the text
is scaled wrong .
so something is not ok i think .
now i checked with another file(the one with teh wrong leaders) , opened
in v6 looks ok, expert a part as v5 , opened in V5 and … yes looks ok ,
also the leaders looking ok no problem with this
so what is wrong with the other file ?
grts
I think you’ve said that with a file that you first converted to v6 some time ago and worked on in v6 you have problems with the text scale, and that when you convert to v6 and back to v5 now, it works right. Is that true?
It looks like all of the text is 10x too big in the first v5 example you sent.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the other file.
If you send the v6 file as it is just before you write to v5 and get the text scaled wrong, I can probably at least tell what setting is wrong. Probably not how it got set wrong though.
No not exactly , converted to v6 worked on it , converted to v5 worked
on it , converted to v6 , still all ok then converted to v5 text wrong
that was … 2 days ago before the upgrade i think.
it is not a major problem the text is there as it is a very old file we
will not use the text as far as i can see , and the other text we use is
on 1 layer so easy convertable
if this is the only thing for me not a problem and if the other files in
v6 to v5 working ok nothing to worry about i think
just … it was a bit strange .
grts
Rob
btw what was wrong that the modelspace was x10 for the text… do not
know how it got there so , btw changing all modeltext to 1 is a long
term bussinis as it is really slow
well playing with leaders, does not go well
i do use a pythonscript, but it works ok in V5
3dm here also, pythonscript also
2d leaders.py (1.68 KB)
leader fault.3dm (133 KB)
I guess you’re saying that the script doesn’t make the leaders look right.
I can see at least 2 things you can do to improve it -
If you set the Leader text alignment in the Annotation Style to Aligned, the text will orient properly.
If you add a parameter to AddLeader to specify using the plane of the view it will make the leader with the right orientation. Like:
rs.AddLeader(points,“Top”,text=layername)
There will definitely be some differences with scripting annotations in v6. It looks to me like it would be helpful to be able to specify a plane for the objects. I’ll have to ask somebody about what to expect with that - @Alain - do you have any suggestions for Rob?
Yes i have seen that the alignment option makes it looks right, will
also ask the script writer Max z if he has a solution
grts
Rob
Hi, I have got an idea to improve dimension tool to use it for better describe the 2D drawings… I prepared the two previews of useing the dimension tool for descibe the windows hole in 2D in Rhino5 and Rhino6beta. The upper example is made by standard dimension tool (you can see the different sollution between R5 a R6) and the lower example is made handly with dimension tool and text tool. But the lower example is right look of dimension for wall hole.
thanks for your interest!
jhe
Thanks for the input -
In V6, you can get close by using text alignment “InLine” and adding a second line of text, but it looks like it would take an option to draw the dimension line through the text instead of clipping it to make it look just like your example. I’ll add that as a wishlist item.
Hi, thanks for it, it would be great if the option is for the dimension style not only for single dimension.
jhe
Hi @lowell
Would it be possible to enable dimension history for objects coming from an attached worksession file.
Long explanation: A common workflow for adding 2D detail to a 3D model
- Attach a file with the original 3D model to a new empty file for 2D drafting, called the drafting file
- Create a section with a clipping plane in the drafting file
- Draw 2D detail lines/curves/hatches/annotations, etc. over the clipped model in the drafting file
- Attach dimensions to the referenced 3D objects in the drafting file
Problem:
- Modify, e.g. move the objects in the original 3D file
- In the drafting file updated the worksession reference of the 3D file
- The history of the dimensions is lost