FS#845Scale factor for dimensions
- Type
- Feature Request
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Implemented
- Category
- QCAD (main)
- Severity
- Low
- Priority
- Low
- Reported version
- 3.1.2
- Operating system
- All
- Reported
- 2013-06-30 by LeoP
- Closed
- 2013-07-12 by andrew
Introduce scale factor for linear dimension entities.
Original request was:
It would be nice to have the possibility to enter dimensions in the form of a formula and still show up as a 'normal' dimension.
This would greatly help in creating details in a different scale (say, 5:1) than the rest of the drawing.
Creating details is quite often necessisary for small objects (when lines are too close together to distinguish at 1:1) if the drawing must be legible to mere humans...
Now one must calculate and manually enter all dimensions for the detail after scaling (and re-calculate every time something gets modified), this is quite error prone.
Exploding the dimensions before scaling is not a real option: the arrowheads and texts then get scaled, too, wich is undesirable.
Scaling back, modifying and then repeating the process is also not quite on the mark: small errors creep in due to finite precision in the calculations made during the scaling.