[SOLVED] Dimensioning

[FBMeca]

Hello,

Please excuse me if my question is redundant. Also, QCAD is a really great program, thanks !
I've got a small problem about the values when I dimension my object. It is very small, and I haven't found any way to change the size of the text of these values. I think it is due to the fact that I've got a scale of 1:1, but I thought it didn't matter if I could just the size manually.

Could someone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance, and stay safe

[andrew]

It's under:

Edit > Drawing Preferences > Dimensions > Dimension Settings:

Screenshot 2020-04-06 at 13.00.20.png (204.82 KiB) Viewed 5342 times

[CVH]

^^^^Above ^^^^
Is for the current drawing.
Menu..Edit..Drawing Preferences (Ctrl+I)

The same can be set for all new drawings.
Menu..Edit..Application Preferences (Ctrl+,)
The red text in the header is self explanatory.

Regards,
CVH

[FBMeca]

Thanks a lot for your help, I had tried that out, but now it works !

Just another question : is it possible to choose the size of the dimensions for each dimension one by one ? Or would I have to change the preferences each time I put a dimension ?

If it's not possible, it's understandable, because it's not really common to change the size on one single drawing...

[CVH]

See same story: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:13 pm
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... 104#p27354

In this topic all the questions about dimensions are answered.
You could try to search the forum on 'dimension' .

Regards,
CVH

[FBMeca]

Thanks a lot for your help, it's all clear now.

Another small question I just encountered : are there some tools to put some colors or for example darken some figures on my drawing ? For example if i draw a circle, and I want to put the whole circle (also the inside) in black (or some other color) ?

Sorry if I'm asking without managing to find the answer, if there is a topic that answers this i'll just look at it

Cheers!

[CVH]

That would be yet another question in this topic.
Pls read the forum rules at the top.

Look for hatch, hatching, solid fill (also a hatch).
Best done on a seperate layer, they tend to get in the way of selections.
In combination with custom colors.

Regards,
CVH.

[FBMeca]

Thanks for your help. I tried hatching, and saw the "hatch pattern", which looked very good.

Only problem is that I don't understand how it actually works ? For the complete filling I just clicked on the circle beforehand, and it worked, but with the "hatch pattern" it didn't work.

How am I supposed to do it ?

Sorry for not creating a new thread, I think it isn't worth it. Correct me if I'm wrong

[CVH]

Sorry for not creating a new thread, I think it isn't worth it.

It aren't my rules!

Look up: topics with boundary.
CVH

[FBMeca]

Everything works fine now, thanks a lot

Have a great week!