[solved] Dimension lines at wrong position

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yeti01
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[solved] Dimension lines at wrong position

Post by yeti01 » Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:04 pm

If you open a file (in QCAD Professional Edition) that was created by the Community Edition, some dimension lines might be shown at a different position. This seems to happen if you have edited the Text Position.

In the example below I created an Aligned Dimension of length=20 (Community Edition). The text original position was at Y=11.875. If I open this file in the Professional Edition everything is fine.

Back to the Community Edition, I changed the Text Position from Y=11.875 to Y=12.
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If I open this changed file in the Professional Edition again, the Dimension Line is also shown at Y=12 (before it was Y=10).
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Re: Dimension lines at wrong position

Post by Husky » Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:34 pm

Hi yeti01 - welcome to the QCAD Forum.

You can reset the dimension label position below Menu / Dimension / Reset Label Position. Just selected the dim and launch this tool ...
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Re: Dimension lines at wrong position

Post by yeti01 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:53 pm

Hi Husky, thanks for the welcome and for your answer.

In fact I didn't know this feature but unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem.

In the example above, the Professional Edition shows the dimension line at Y=12 whereas the Community Edition shows it at Y=10 (please keep in mind it is the same DXF-R15 file). For me it looks like both Editions interpret the DXF-R15 format in a different way. Do you use the same dxflib for both?

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Re: Dimension lines at wrong position

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Re: Dimension lines at wrong position

Post by yeti01 » Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:25 pm

Problem solved. Thanks Andrew!

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