Can Temporary Dimensions be turned off and on with a setting.
No - you cannot turn off temp dimensions. They are there to help you model as you go.
Why would you want to turn them off?
LD
The answer that has been given is not only not what people want to hear, but its downright arrogant and rude.
Why would you want to turn off Temporary dimensions? Well simple, when you are placing components and hundres of the **** things pop up, you DONT WANT THEM THERE! That's why we want to turn them off.
Now are there any plans to put a feature in where they can be turned on and off at will?
Hi Barry.
Lisa's question was not rude and she is right, they are there to help you. You can change their behaviour but not their appearance. Check out the options dialog, the manage temporary dimensions, and advanced family creation to better understand how they behave.
Actually, a lot of people (including myself) believe that listening dimensions are part of what make REVIT a very successfull tool.
If you are interested in making them disappear, simply add that to the wishlist in the autodesk website. People here are trying to help you.
Regards,
Hello BarryLeggins1161 and welcome to the discussion!
I will not apologize for my response. Please do not read more into it then what it really is.
I see you are new to the discussion boards which is awesome! We always welcome more member to our discussion.
As for my question of why... If the board can get a better understanding of the thought processes and what is trying to be accomplish - there may be an other option or workaround. We don't know that until we ask ... Why.
I hope you continue to post and become an active member of the board!
LD
Temporary dimensions are very helpful and I agree, make Revit more useful. However, it would also be very useful to be able to turn them off. For instance, when placing instances of plantings, I tend to not give as much concern over the location and instead want to place them as quickly as possible. It is inevitable that I will need to place a tree or shrub where a temp. dimension is shown relative to the last instance and either requires hitting esc. or placing a shrub in another location. More often though, I keep on placing instances and instead of placing the shrub or tree in the desired location, I instead make a temp. dimension a permanent one, which requires deleting it and then re-placing the intended planting family. As with most things in Revit, having more control is better than having less control.
when placing instances of plantings, I tend to not give as much concern over the location and instead want to place them as quickly as possible. It is inevitable that I will need to place a tree or shrub where a temp. dimension is shown relative to the last instance and either requires hitting esc. or placing a shrub in another location.
You only need to turn Snap Off then you won't be bothered by temporary dimensions for such tasks.
I have a circumstance where you might want them off. I want to take a quick video orbting the model in 3D around a particular object. I click on that object to make it the center of my orbit but then I get a temporary dimension in the middle of my screen and it shows up in the video. Now, I know that I could do a flythrough, or walkthrough, but I just want a quick little video to send to a fabricator so that they can understand how something is put together.
If not showing temporary dimensions when orbiting is important to you, then instead of selecting an object, use Center under Navigation Wheel to set your orbiting anchor point. It's a bit more cumbersome but you can get used to it after a few times.
The Snap Off (SO) feature works for one instance. But when placing more than once instance the SO feature comes back and the user is required to turn snaps off for each instance placed, not useful. Still need an option to display temporary dimensions or not. Seems like I have run across this option... maybe in a dream?
@ToanDN wrote:
"You only need to turn Snap Off then you won't be bothered by temporary dimensions for such tasks."
Awesome! Thanks so much for the tip (and the video). Worked perfectly.
If the temporary dimension ever connected to some logical reference point that might not be so bad... or if you're trying to modify the location of an object using the dimension that you've already placed, then you click on the thing to move it, and guess what? The temporary dimension occurs EXACTLY on top of the intention dimensions every. ****. time. so you have to zoom in with a microscope to isolate the dimension you need to adjust. This does not help design flow. Some shift+ toggle to turn these on an off (like the half dozen other toggles for hiding/revealing objects) would be tremendously beneficial. While I'm ranting, I'd like to see a list of things that have ever actually been added to an Autodesk product from the wish list.
@Base12 wrote:While I'm ranting, I'd like to see a list of things that have ever actually been added to an Autodesk product from the wish list.
The complaint department is down the hall to left and the IDEAS forum is just a bit farther.
Product feedback is where your rant belongs.
Did you ever figure out how to turn them off? They are making me crazy. Thanks
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