Grid Bubbles

[golem]

Two-part question:

1. I placed a set ot of horizontal grid lines, so that their dimension lines run vertically. Can I flip the dimension text to the opposite orientation, so that I my head to the left to read the text, rather than to the right?

2. I have two overlapping bubbles; can I offset one of them so that the drawing looks thoughtful?

Thanks.

[islandmon]

1) Use the PIO field > "offset " > as neg '-' or the '+' for the distance offset to position the text on either side of the dimension line.

2) Uh ?

[golem]

I guess I did not make myself clear. I'll try again.

Question 1 solved itself in the viewport, even though it looked wrong in the Design Layer. The default distance offset was fine.

Question 2 is about getting the TAG out of the way of a nearby TAG, either vertically or horizontally. The printed manual shows a example of this, but does not explain how to make it happen.

Thanks.

[ 03-22-2005, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: golem ]

[Robert Anderson]

You draw two grid bubble objects. This is how it's done in the manual. First a "major" grid object (1, 2, 3, etc.) then a "minor" grid object with a prefix of #. where the # is the major grid element you are following. Make sense?

[golem]

One more attempt: how exacltly do I nest grids into my existing grid?