Unable to get Inches-Fractional to be modified after GH Bake

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After pasting a bake into a blank drawing the dimensions come over as Inches-Decimal. When I double click a dimension and go to Length Units it shows as Inches-Fractional and trying to change anything associated with Length Units makes no changes. However, I can go to Arrows in that window and change the end styles/etc just fine.

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If I enable Alt Units … Inches-Fractional works fine there … except I now have two numbers on the dimension line … which the decimal number is undesired.

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I need to get the regular dimension text in Inches-Fractional or have a way to get the Alt-Units to show without the regular units showing.

Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!

Best regards,
Bruce

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Hi Bruce -

Could you please post the .3dm file? The .gh file would probably be very useful for debugging as well…
-wim

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Hi Wim,
Thank you for your response. The 3dm is attached.

Is there a way to DM you the GH file to preserve my client’s privacy?

Best regards,
Bruce

BakeTest72.3dm (405 KB)

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Hi Bruce -

You can always upload files that can’t be made public, but I don’t think that’s necessary in this case.

The issue is that those dimensions are baked with a fixed number, not a length variable:

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When you manually change that fixed number into <>, the length units will follow the annotation style settings:

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In Rhino 8, when you use the new components for annotations, baking will keep that number as a variable. I see you are using Rhino 7 and I’m not sure if there are Grasshopper plug-ins that will do that.
-wim

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Wim,

It looks like the only option is to upgrade to V8?

Thanks!
Bruce

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Elefront (available by running PackageManager command in Rhino 7)

bakes with the <>

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I bought the V8 commercial upgrade and installed it, but the V8 UI didn’t pickup any of my V7 UI configs.

Is there a way to get V8 to go to V7 and import all the toolbars, colors, layout directory locations, annotations, etc back to where I had them?

I have a ton of productivity setup time invested in the 7 UI and would like to not have to reconfig that all from scratch tonight if possible.

Thanks!

Bruce

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Hi Bruce -

That’s correct - there is no automatic porting of customizations.
The toolbar system and color set-ups are completely new in Rhino 8 and it’s advisable to do that over again. You can export toolbars from Rhino 7 and import those, but toolbar buttons in Rhino 8 are vector based; in Rhino 7 they were bitmaps.
Annotations are saved in 3dm files and you can reuse your custom templates in Rhino 8. I’m not sure what “layout directory locations” refers to.
-wim

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I’m up on V8 and working smoothly now. Selecting Edit Linear Dimension and changing the number to a variable with <> makes the baked dimensions pick up the annotation style from the blank base 3dm file template. That helps to know.

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QUESTION: Is there a way to setup an Aligned (or other) Dimension object) to make it bake directly as a variable so I don’t have to manually edit every individual dimension in each final target drawing to get the needed annotation style my customer is asking for?

I have 170 shop drawings on my plate for next week and I would be really excited to find a way to avoid manually changing decimal to fractional annotation styles on a couple thousand dimensions. LOL :^)

(A thought: Looking at this from a user perspective, it would be great if Grasshopper dimension objects could pickup the Current Annotation Style of the 3dm that GH is directly working with and bake that in the result. )

Thanks for your good help!

Best regards,
Bruce