That’s a great idea. What you’re proposing is a form of baseline dimensioning, where each measurement is made from the same origin or baseline. It has the advantage of avoiding tolerance accumulation (or call it measurement error accumulation if you wish), a problem with chain dimensioning that can make the holes progressively off target on a fabricated part.
Exactly that! they probably would need to look a little different, to avoid confusion between the two. for example the origin would need to be clearly identified.
Although I think it’s a worthwhile suggestion, to reuse a phrase that may be starting to get a bit tired, you probably have a better chance of being hit by a comet. And surviving.
I can’t promise anything about upcoming features, but this is a common feature request for LayOut and the team is definitely paying attention. How do you currently distinguish between running and non-running dimensions in your documents?
We rarely do running dimensions on our documents currently, because of all the manual work to input them. but IF we do use them, then we just make sure to notate them as running dimensions. but the time that goes into adding up the dimensions or measuring actual model dimensions is not worth it. but having them does greatly increase the value of our documents for fabricators so i thought it would be a good feature request
so thank you for looking at it at least. even if you cant promise anything
Sigh, really wish you guys would add this feature. It would be a significant feature for my company. Allow us to set color, line weight and/or dashes to distinguish it from regular dimensions. A unique origin point would also be helpful.
Any updates on running dimensions in Layout? or do i need to just dive into the layout api and try to build it myself
Just want to get an update on whither or not it is still being looked at, i know my team is dying to have something like this feature available. what strings do i need to pull?
Years ago, when I detailed glulam beams and steel using pencil and vellum, we used a circle for the origin terminator and, as @DaveR shows above, arrow terminators in the direction of increasing distance. This CAN be done in LO, but it’s a super tedious PIA.
My screen shots are from LayOut. The dimensions in my second screen shot were done with some manipulation. The Dimension tool doesn’t do it on its own.
DaveR,
I call that a string line dimension, but I can’t get layout to do that. A base line dimension is when the dimensions keep adding up. Please tell me how you get layout to do what you are showing.
Zadach