Since updating to '24, I notice dimension lines no longer snap to corners, centers, other dimension lines, etc. In past years this greatly sped up my ability to dimension as I could quickly copy and multiply already made dim lines. This also made aligning and organizing the overall page much easier. Is this now a setting I can toggle back on or has that feature been removed?
Note: Object Snap is turned ON
The feature hasn’t been removed. Share the LO file.
This is done in LO 2024.
Try grabbing the dimension at the point you want to inference from, whether that’s the end of the extent line, or on the connection point. This was a major change that we made for the 2024.0 version - you will see as you hover over your selected dimension the point we will be inferencing once you click and start moving your entity. This behavior matches the way moving entities in SketchUp has worked for a long time.
Hope that helps,
Adam
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Slightly OT but still relevant to the 2024 dimensioning. I have noticed a problem with the “Reconnect” option. As indicated in the video by @DaveR above, we tend to connect to nodes for dimensioning. When things in the model move, if they can’t reconnect the dims turn red, which is a great feature. What I am seeing though is dims will suggest they have reconnected, but in reality they have merely reconnected to an edge vector. In most of my encounters the displacement is obvious, but sometimes it requires a close check.
This makes sense. I tried it and understand it. An easy adjustment for me to make in moving/duplicating dim lines. Thank you Adam.
I for one, don’t believe these functions between LayOut and SketchUp need to match! It is far quicker to work in LayOut with native inferencing in lieu of manual inferencing! This becomes most critical when working with smaller objects and symbols. I do see value in the manual method in many cases, albeit slower, but overall, I’d love a modifier to switch between both methods! My workflow time losses are considerable!
BTW, maintaining context with the original post, there does seem to be a bug if actually scaling dimensions, the process seems to require scaling twice. On the first scaling, it seems to scale based on the overall width (including any extensions to the dimension) and then scale again to collect the true dimension only! Weird!