Obscured dimension witness line

[Oyvind]

Hi folks,

I have a problem where the text in dimensions are obscuring the witness line.

This occurs when the text is to long for the available space between the witness lines and moved to the outside by VW.

The fix have been to adjust it manually.

Is there a way to adjust the offset distance for text outside witness lines?

[M5d]

Only manually, just add a few spaces in the leader or trailer fields to shift the text left of right.

[bcd]

File>Document Settings>Document Preferences

Dimension Standard - Custom to create a new standard

Edit the custom standard.

I believe herein you will find the settings you need and select this custom from the OI palette.

Manually you can just click and drag the dimension value into place

Edited November 17, 2009 by bcd

[Oyvind]

Thank you both for answering.

There is no option for this in the edit custom standard dialog, and I was hoping to avoid manual edit.

Does anyone know if VW2010 have the same issue?

Edited November 18, 2009 by Oyvind

[mike m oz]

Vw 2010 has Dimension Collision Detection.

There are some limitations with it though:

• It only works when you create the dimensions. Subsequent changes to the dimensioned object will require you to manually edit the dimensions as you do now. That is easier though because you can now select a single text entity and move it anywhere you want.
  
• If you change the Dimension Standard all of the 'collision' detection will be lost.
  
• The result is not very satisfactory visually with the offset text too far above the other dimension text.

[Oyvind]

Agreed, to far above. Nice thought though.