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Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by Husky » Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:42 pm

XP32 / QCAD 3.2.1

I was working in the last days on a draft and I manipulated a couple dimensions in my drawing (scale, text changes etc.).
Now I experience that the Dimension value position has changed - not on my behalf! It is now in the center of the Dimension line. I can correct it but after a time it will change again by it self.
What have I done wrong ......... or ....... what is QCAD doing?
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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by andrew » Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:56 pm

Do you have any indication when this happen? After saving / loading? After a certain type of modification? Or after using a certain tool?
Thanks.

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by Husky » Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:39 pm

andrew wrote:Do you have any indication when this happen? After saving / loading? After a certain type of modification? Or after using a certain tool?
Thanks.
Not a clear indication - my "feeling" is after saving / loading but without proof ... :cry:

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by andrew » Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:53 pm

OK, I cannot reproduce that problem at the moment.

For now, you can reset dimension text positions of all selected dimension entities using the command line command:
dimregen
I.e. select all dimension entities with wrong text positions and type 'dimregen' into the command prompt and hit enter.

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by Husky » Thu Aug 22, 2013 3:09 am

andrew wrote:OK, I cannot reproduce that problem at the moment.

For now, you can reset dimension text positions of all selected dimension entities using the command line command:
dimregen
I.e. select all dimension entities with wrong text positions and type 'dimregen' into the command prompt and hit enter.

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Works - thank you!

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by olly » Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:38 am

the behavior is the same when importing DXF at least Format R15 (2000)

I send a file to andrew

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by andrew » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:28 am

olly: the file you have sent uses a text style that is currently not supported by QCAD (text position vertical: above).

I've added a feature request to add support for this:
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... ask_id=901

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by dtischler » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:55 am

I'd like to warm up this topic. I experience the very same problem and resetting the dimension label positions does not help.

This is the error description: When I change the position of a dimension label, save and close the file (no matter dxf or dwg), reopen the file, then the placement is changed. It seems, however, that not the dimension label but the dimension lines change their position. System details below.

I'd really appreciate any help here.
Thank you,
Sebastian.


QCAD Professional 64Bit Version on Xubuntu 13.10:
QCAD version: 3.4.3.0
Date: Nov 13 2013
Qt version: 4.8.4
Compiler version: gcc 4.4.3
OS: Linux
OS version: Unknown

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by J-J » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:20 pm

Hi Guys,

I have had the same thing happen on a drawing, I believe after a save / reopen (Win7-64). Reset does the trick, but I cannot remember if it did it again after. I keep an eye on that!
JJ Win7 pro-64

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by andrew » Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:22 am

This problem has been identified and fixed for the next release:
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... ask_id=971

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Re: Dimensioning - weird behavior ...

Post by Husky » Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:24 pm

andrew wrote:... and fixed for the next release:
Perfect - thank you very much!

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