Set and keep dimension distance to views

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

How can I get my dimensions to keep their distance to the view when I change the size of the geometry? Right now, when I increase the size of my part, the dimensions "go into" the view, and when I decrease it, they move too far away from the view. It would be nice to have them "in place" when I make changes to geometry.

Best regards,

Espen

[HermJan.Otterman]

could you do it manualy with arrange? would that give you a good result?

if so than you can do that also with code.

'Create object collection for arrange

Dim oArrangeCollection As ObjectCollection

oArrangeCollection = Thisapplication.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection

'Place dimensions

Dim oLineareDim As LinearGeneralDimension = DrawlinearDimension(lstLowestObjects(0), lstHighestObjects(0))

oArrangeCollection.Add(oLineareDim)

oLineareDim = DrawlinearDimension(lstLeftObjects(0), lstRightObjects(0))

oArrangeCollection.Add(oLineareDim)

'arrange

Dim osheet As Sheet = oDrawingView.Parent

osheet.DrawingDimensions.Arrange(oArrangeCollection)

[rikard.nilsson]

Hi Espen,

My suggestion is that you place the dimensions as a distance from view border. Then your dimensions always is outside the view.
You can get the center, width and height of the view and after that it's only math.

/Rikard

[Anonymous]

Thank you both for your replies!

Rikard, this is what I want to do but cant figure out how to do 🙂 The dimensions are created "the normal way". How can I:

a) Sort the dimensions I want to position from the rest? How do I  search for them and sort them in a collection?

B) How do I place them? I can't see that there's a Position property in the General Dimension object?

Espen

[rikard.nilsson]

Hi,

If I understod you right. You have the dimensions create manually before yo try to move them with code..

a) It can be quite hard to find the right ones and after that sort them. What I would do is to create some layers and place the dimensions on different layers. And then search for the dimension on specific layers. If you give them different names then you know where each dimension to move first..

b) dimension.Text.Origin is the one you use to move it when it's already placed in the drawing..

One other way to solve this is to add dimensions dynamiclly to the drawing one by one.. But that is more programming I think..But not that hard to solve..

/Rikard