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demackison
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Hiding dimensions

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Is there a way to hide dimensions from view in the sketcher?

I'm particularly interested in hiding dimensions where the value is 0: for example when the vertical height between two horizontal points is 0 mm.
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Re: Hiding dimensions

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I think it's still not possible.
But in your case you can draw a horizontal helper line as (blue) construction line and use the contraint point on line.
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I don't see how that would be an improvement.
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Re: Hiding dimensions

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demackison wrote:Is there a way to hide dimensions from view in the sketcher?
You hide or show dimension the same as other objects, you can use the space bar after selecting them in the TreeView, or right mouse click and select hide or unhide from the menu etc. ...but since you are talking about sketcher, I suspect you are talking about constraints and not dimensions? In which case you can not hide them, but you can drag their value to display in a more convenient location. There may well be times where hiding them makes sense but mostly you need to seem them all so that you can understand how it is constrained, i.e. how the geometry is defined.

If two points have zero distance in both directions then you would likely be better to use a coincidence constraint, or in some specific cases "point on line" may be applicable. But of course there are times when a zero valued distance is desirable.
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Re: Hiding dimensions

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Yes, I was referring to constraints when *adding* dimensions is what I need.

BTW, I do not have edit ability on the wiki. somebody who does may want to link http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... _Dimension to http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... Dimensions in some manner.
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Re: Hiding dimensions

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demackison wrote:BTW, I do not have edit ability on the wiki. somebody who does may want to link http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... _Dimension to http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... Dimensions in some manner.
Yeah, that looks a little confusing. The "Draft Dimensions" is referring to a "Draft Snap" type (snap to dimensions)...hence I would have thought Yorik would have named the pages something more like Draft_Snap_Dimensions, but I see he has labelled some other snap types I looked at without the "snap" in the name. I don't know why he would have done that but there maybe a good reason, it may be the command name for example.

If Yorik misses this topic, we should ask him about it in a few days.
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Hm too fast named probably... We should indeed rename Draft_Dimensions to Draft_Snap_Dimensions or something.
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