Bruce Kieffer Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Is there a way to vertically set the text of a horizontal dimension? Quote Link to comment
Tom4 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Yes, Go to you r object info pallet and use text rotate. Hope this is what you are asking. Tom Windows XP pro sp2 3gh 3gb ram Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 Nope. That does not make the text of a horizontal dimension turn vertical. Quote Link to comment
G_Hannigan Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Are you trying to rotate the text around the axis of the dimension line? The dimension is a 2D object. The only way I can think of is to change the text into a 3D object (eg an extrude). It will lose the properties of a dimension object. Quote Link to comment
jfmarch Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 you are going to have to create your own custom dimension for that, i believe. fairly straight forward to do. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 The only options you get for the text though are: - Horizintal - Horizontal/Verical - Aligned. The horizontal and vertical are relative to the page and not the dimension line. The Horizontal option will allow you to have dimensions at right angles where the dimensions are vertical. Where the dimensions are horizontal the text will remain horizontal though. The short answer to your question Bruce is no. Quote Link to comment
DDDesign Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 A possible work-around: 1. Ungroup the dimension (ignore the warning note) 2. resize the text box to 1 character wide - this will give you vertical text. 3. reposition text box if necessary. 4. Re-group This isn't entirely satisfactory, because the dimension won't automaticallly update, but it might do for the occaisional use. Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Thanks, I'll post this on the wish list. Quote Link to comment
Malkatraz Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Is there any point at all in Vectorworks? All these glaring inadequacies, reported back over 17 years, and they're still not sorted. What a joke. Quote Link to comment
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