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Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

tim11_manhhieu — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:33:37 GMT

Hi experts, I want to rotate radius general dimension like a below image by picking.

Re: Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

jake_egley — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:46:14 GMT

Here's a similar question. Unfortunately it looks like there is no way to automate that process.

Re: Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

tim11_manhhieu — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:10:44 GMT

thank you for your reply.

Re: Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

tim11_manhhieu — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:28:23 GMT

Can I get the coordinates A or B or information of this curve,

is there any way to convert geometry intent to curve?

I'm trying to converting newGeometryIntent to Curve.

I want to know the coordinates of the curve, from the coordinates of the curve can calculate the coordinates of the dim text origin so that it forms a 45 degree angle.

My whole idea is:

Create a new radius dimension, reuse the geometry intent of the old dimension, delete old dim.

45 degree angle will be created from the coordinates of the geometry intent and oDim.text.origin

GeneralDimensions.AddRadius( TextOrigin As Point2d, Intent As GeometryIntent, [ArrowheadsInside] As Boolean, [LeaderFromCenter] As Boolean, [Jogged] As Boolean, [DimensionStyle] As Variant, [Layer] As Variant ) As RadiusGeneralDimension

Sub zzz() Dim doc As DrawingDocument Set doc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument Dim oSheet As sheet Set oSheet = doc.activeSheet Dim oDim As RadiusGeneralDimension Set oDim = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(kDrawingDimensionFilter, "Pick dimension") Dim newDim As RadiusGeneralDimension Dim oTG As TransientGeometry Set oTG = ThisApplication.TransientGeometry Dim newGeometryIntent As GeometryIntent Set newGeometryIntent = oDim.Intent '<--- stuck here End sub

Re: Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

WCrihfield — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:25:35 GMT

That is getting into some grey area, but the GeometryIntent object has some properties we can use, which may help. First check its GeometryIntent.IntentType property, which will return a variation of the IntentTypeEnum. If its type is kGeometryIntent, then you may be in luck, and we can move on to getting the value of its GeometryIntent.Geometry property, which just returns a generic Object type. Its documentations specifies that Type, because it can return many different Types of objects. So, usually a large, multi-faceted block of code is often needed at this point, to test which Type of object it returned, then respond with custom blocks of code for dealing differently with each different Type it might have returned. In your case, you likely just want the 'DrawingCurve' or 'DrawingCurveSegment' types, which are possible. That would be the 2D geometry that exists within the view, on that sheet, for some sort of geometry in the model. If/when you have that, you have properties for start point, end point, and potentially mid point, as well as other properties for further inspecting its geometry. However, the other Point involved (the text placement point) is often not in a straight line with the tip of the pointer, due to 'styles' settings of whatever type of dimension or annotation you are working with. The text is often over the line, under the line, or at the end of a flat, landing line, to keep it at a readable angle, so getting the 'perfect' 45 degree line will still be challenging.

Re: Can I rotate radius general dimension in drawing

tim11_manhhieu — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:26:24 GMT

thank you.