I would love to see SU devise a dimension line that would recognize the boundary of the drawing and offset the dimension lines a given amount. My attachment illustrates this better than I can describe. I spend a lot of time moving the extension lines from the original snapping on the form and alig…

I agree. If someone knows how, it would be a valuable addition. But, having attempted to code such things in a past life I found that it is a very hard problem. A large part of the issue is that dimensions are subject to what I’ve seen called “secondary notation”. That is, the placement and arra…

Some more user control of dimension styles could be in order. For instance, in our parts it is customary to suppress the extension lines except for a short line that is part of the arrowhead.

[image] Support practices/norms applied in several European countries for dimension formats Feature Requests Looking after an automatic support of following formatting practice of dimensions, in accordance with standards applied in several countries for architectural drawi…

Thanks @sketch3d_de for referring to my post there and the constructive contributions you made to it. I posted it at the time coming from a professional exposure as architect in Switzerland and Germany where specific dimensioning standards are strictly applied and unfortunately not supported by Sket…

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