topic Re: rotated dimension text is upside down in Documentation

rotated dimension text is upside down

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:18:29 GMT

Anyone know of any method to force vertical dimension text to read from the left? The AC default is to make it read from the right.

My reason is that I need to rotate my drawing (not the model) 45 degrees counterclockwise to make it fit on a sheet, but this turns the dimension text 45 degrees upside down. (See attached.)

One solution I know would be to rotate the model itself 1 degree clockwise, forcing vertical dimensions to not be perfectly vertical, and thus they'd read from the left. But that sounds like a really bad solution....

Thanks in advance for suggestions...

Re: rotated dimension text is upside down

Stress Co_ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:26:51 GMT

Select the dimension's text. Change the angle field in the Info Box (subtract 180 degrees) ... Drag the text to the preferred position.

Re: rotated dimension text is upside down

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:54:44 GMT

Man, so easy it was staring me in the face

Thanks a lot Marc.

Re: rotated dimension text is upside down

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:49:26 GMT

Hopefully you do not have to do it with hundreds of dimension texts.
You can modify them at the same time, but selecting them one by one is excruciating.

Would be nice if we could select all Dimension Texts using Find & Select.

Re: rotated dimension text is upside down

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:49:12 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Would be nice if we could select all Dimension Texts using Find & Select.

Yes... but after selecting all the dim texts you'd have to
deselect (or isolate somehow) the other half -- those that where already horizontal and you didn't want to rotate.

Better yet would be the ability to control their orientation from the Dimension Tool setting, and not the dim text window, to get'em right the first time.