@Dennis.Meehan wrote:
Using an Ordinate dimension .... sometimes the text placement would be better in the horizontal than aligned with the vertical line. Too bad you can't have it ...
You can have that. Better to ask whether someone knows of a way to do something than to complain that there is no way to do it, and be wrong.
On the left are two Ordinate Dimensions as AutoCAD makes them [one dimensioning in the X direction and one in the Y]:

On the right, I just changed the Text Rotations in the Properties palette, to the other orientation. The only tricky part is that 0° rotation means "aligned with the direction of the dimension line." So for the 11.25 one, on the left it's already set to 0°, and you can't get it to drawing-0° by setting it to 0° there. Instead, I set it to 0.001° to get the one on the right. [For the 2.89° one, I just set it to 90°.]
I would worry that turning that 11.25 could be misleading to someone reading the drawing -- that may be why, even in a Dimension Style that has the text set to be horizontal, it does orient the text that way in Linear/Rotated/Aligned Dimensions, but it doesn't do that with Ordinate Dimensions.
If I have misunderstood what you're talking about, post an image or small sample drawing clearly pointing out what you get and what you want instead.
Kent Cooper, AIA