Dimensioning entities

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spectric
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Dimensioning entities

Post by spectric » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:06 pm

Hi all

Having some issues with the readability of dimensions, I am using the latest pro version and on the windows 10 OS. When I was producing wood profiles for routing and the entities were no more than 100mm in any dimension then I had no issues with either accuracy or readability. I have since started to produce some drawings for cabinets and with dimensions of 1000mm the dimension is only readable when you zoom right in so the actual drawing is very large. I have gone through all the drawing and application preferences in line with the manual and cannot see what is wrong. There are no issues with the displayed dimension, that is correct. Any ideas please?

thanks Roy

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Re: Dimensioning entities

Post by andrew » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:31 pm

Adjust the text height of dimensions under:
Edit > Drawing Preferences > Dimension > Dimension Settings > Text Height

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Re: Dimensioning entities

Post by spectric » Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:48 pm

Thanks Andrew

I have now sorted the problem, changed type of font and size. I think that during my working life all the companies I worked for spoon fed us, all the fonts, page setups and logos were just there and with huge libraries and part bins I probably did not realise the amount of work being done in the backrooms.

thanks Roy

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