Questions on TechDraw

[un1corn]

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Hi, a couple of questions from a newbie to TechDraw.
1) Is it possible to scale the height of the "Section" indicators ie. A-A or B-B etc, I find them to be to large in the attached file ?
2) Is it possible to move the dimensions values off of the dimension line, I can scale and colour the value also move it along or to the side of line but not off the line ?
The attached file is just a tryout to familiarise myself with TechDraw.
Thanks in advance.

[kisolre]

1. Sorry, no idea, newbie also.
2. Could you provide an example? If they are off the line how will it be known which line they belong to?

[un1corn]

When I say off of the line I only mean a by few pixels only, not so that it is dissociated from the line entirely, In V0.16 Drawing Dimensioning WB the value was not sitting on the line.
Example in the file attached to the earlier post.

[chrisb]

It's not what you asked for, but if you want something to be really off the line you can use a balloon.

[un1corn]

Attached for comparison similar shape in V0.16 to indicate the the issue.

[kisolre]

It looks like it is fixed at around 20% of the font size. Can it be adjusted in 0.16?

[meme2704]

Hi
Techdraw is still in development, so a lot of function does not work properly
Ex: lign width zero comma 7 does not work, it is necessary to highlight to the left of comma, to change, to highlight on the right and to change
Ex: View001 / Dim001 I change% .0f to 125, the dia symbols of view become square, however in SectionBB the dia 6 that I add after walking
but to answer your questions: in the combo, under the data tab, you can change Format spec in 125 (for example)
and on the View tab: color, size, font, and line width
you also have the Preferance page for default values
Practice, play with all these parameters and see each time what changes

Edit : lign with become lign width

[wandererfan]

1) Is it possible to scale the height of the "Section" indicators ie. A-A or B-B etc, I find them to be to large in the attached file ?

The A-A text uses the "Label Size" parameter from page 1 of TechDraw preferences (maybe should use Dimension FontSize from page 2?). The size of the arrowheads is controlled by the ArrowSize parameter on page 2. Smaller values would look like this:

SectionLineSmallFontAndArrow.png (11.68 KiB) Viewed 726 times

IIRC Arrows are supposed to be 1.5x the FontSize, but not everybody follows this "rule".

2) Is it possible to move the dimensions values off of the dimension line, I can scale and colour the value also move it along or to the side of line but not off the line ?

No. But if the Dimension text size and the ArrowSize are in sync, you shouldn't need to.

DimWithSmallerArrows.png (12.86 KiB) Viewed 726 times

[wandererfan]

Techdraw is still in development, so a lot of function does not work properly

That's a bit harsh. There is certainly room for improvement.

Ex: lign with zero comma 7 does not work, it is necessary to highlight to the left of comma, to change, to highlight on the right and to change
Ex: View001 / Dim001 I change% .0f to 125, the dia symbols of view become square, however in SectionBB the dia 6 that I add after walking

Je ne peux pas trouver ces exemples dans le dessin. Peut-être quelques images simple? (I can't find these examples in the drawing. Maybe some simple pictures?)

Ton example me montre un petite bibitte avec le texte d'un diametre sur le cote droit de le circle. Merci pour ca. (Your example showed me a little bug in diameter text on the right side of the circle. Thanks for that.)

wf

[kisolre]

When looking at that file several other questions popped out:
Why is the radius dimension far away from its line (compared to diameter which is better IMO)?
Why is the section arrow located there (relative to its line)? With 3mm arrow and 0,7 mm line they overlap badly.
Why is the view Label displayed and not only the Caption? Even if KeepLabel is set to False?

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Test2_kiss_view name.JPG (91.71 KiB) Viewed 712 times

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