Steve Dubai Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) I do a lot of drawings where I show view ports in plan view, front, side, etc. I make dimensions solid to the text is on top of the line. This is fine in plan view, but if I go to any other view the text appears to have no fill, it has the line through the text so you can't read it. It's driving me crazy. I end up doing my dimensions on top of my view ports and manually typing in the dimensions, a very boring fix! Can anyone help? Edited April 20, 2015 by Steve Dubai Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted April 20, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 20, 2015 What rendering mode are you viewing those other views in? OpenGL and Wireframe may not show 3D dimension text fills but Hidden Line and the Renderworks modes should. Quote Link to comment
joerg Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 good morning! i allways add dimensioning in the viewport annotations.that gives me a clean drawing on my designlayer to work on. and they are assossiative there as well, if you choosed this option in the document settings... Quote Link to comment
Steve Dubai Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) Hi Joerg, thanks for the tip, if I add dimensions in viewport annotations the text fills over the dimension line, this fixes most of my problems. I still have a problem though if I use a custom 3D viewport, adding dimensions in annotations doesn't work on a custom 3D viewport. Thanks JimW, I still have the same problem in hidden line render, however I do get the text fill if I render in renderworks, but for the type of stuff I'm doing I rarely need or want to render in renderworks. Edited April 21, 2015 by Steve Dubai Quote Link to comment
joerg Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 well dimensioning in 3D still doesn't work... i guess! Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 (edited) Attached image shows dimension in straight views and iso and all look the same, do you get this all consistent except for them flipped the wrong way. This is all done in the design layer and these are viewports Edited April 23, 2015 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Steve Dubai Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Hi Alan. You attachment is exactly the same as how I normally do dimensions, with the view ports, the only difference is I prefer to have 0 offset on the text. I'm sure in your example if you put all the text offsets to 0, the plan view will look OK, you can fill the text, but all the other views you can't fill the text. Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Hi not sure what yo mean by filled text, I set the offest to 0. maybe you can put am image in. Quote Link to comment
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