Dimension styles

[ringstrom]

Are there any plans to support different styles for dimensions, such as having slashes instead of arrows at the endpoints, or hollow arrows, etc?

[michael]

Slashes are not well defined for dimensions. But used in semiprofessional business, I know.

So, arrows are standard anyway. Well known and does not confuse people. The arrow within QCad works for most situations very well.

If you need different styles, then use for example different colors or line styles.

But sure, you can draw a special arrow by your own. And create a component, block, or put it in a library "arrows".

[jka]

Here is a patch for slash dimension. It should apply to 2.0.5 version. Tested on Ubuntu 7.10.

http://www.purske.fi/~jka/patches/qcad_dim_patch.txt

Jukka

[andrew]

Here is a patch for slash dimension. It should apply to 2.0.5 version. Tested on Ubuntu 7.10.

http://www.purske.fi/~jka/patches/qcad_dim_patch.txt

Jukka

Thanks Jukka.

Please note that this patch breaks DXF compatibility ($DIMTYPE is not a valid DXF header variable).

The current development version of QCad Professional has support for architectural ticks ('slashes'). It uses the DXF header variable "$DIMBLK".

Andrew

[jka]

Please note that this patch breaks DXF compatibility ($DIMTYPE is not a valid DXF header variable).

Ok. Thanks for pointing this out. An updated patch is in the same location. I also removed the DIMANGLE stuff, the angle is now always 45 degrees.

And the old patch can be found at
http://www.purske.fi/~jka/patches/qcad_dim_patch.old.txt

Jukka

[SFC]

The Architectural community that uses arch ticks (slashes) as the standard might take objection to your reference of them only being used in "semi-professional" business.

[andrew]

SFC: Agreed. QCad Professional 2.2 offers architectural ticks as alternative to arrows.