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Increasing the Dimension Marker Size

Martin Jules
Mentor

I don't know why I can't increase the marker size through the dimension selection settings. It's limited to 100 mm: 

Mjules_0-1713410332451.png

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Lingwisyer
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Looking at your image, are you placing Views at a scale <100%? Else your text is like 400mm tall...? If 1:5000 is not big enough, do remember that there is a Custom Scale option at the top.

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@Martin Jules wrote:

 (scale: 1:237 on the layout book):


So, are you placing a view on the layout and then re-scaling it in the layout?

This will cause problems.

You should create a view at the scale you want.

Adjust annotation size (including dimension markers) to be the size you want to print them (i.e. 2mm text, 4mm text - what ever size you want the annotation to print as).

Then place the view as a drawing on the layout at 100% size.

What you see in the view is what you will see in the layout.

 

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If you open your drawing (open source view), what is the size if the dimension text and marker size?

And what is the scale of the view?

 

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Barry Kelly
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There seems to be a maximum size, just as there is a minimum of 0.5mm.

 

100mm is a pretty big marker - that is the size it will print on the page and not a scaled size.

 

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100 mm is too small compared to the size adopted at my work which is possible from other BIM software for example: 

Mjules_0-1713411548491.png

 

Martin Luther Jules
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I don't understand why you want it so big.

It will print on your page as 100mm - is that hat you want?

 

BarryKelly_0-1713413299476.png

 

 

Barry.

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No! See what I want for the company I work for below.

Martin Luther Jules
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Here's an example from ArchiCAD: 

Mjules_0-1713413977849.png

I can't find what they need from ArchiCAD.

Martin Luther Jules
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We are working on very big urban design projects (City Information Modeling: CIM).

Martin Luther Jules
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Asus | 64 GB RAM | Windows 11

Are you wanting to change the length, or the thickness?

the setting you are changing is the length, the thickness is controlled via pen setting.

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Can you mark up the image to show what you want?

I do not understand your problem.

 

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I am talking about the length which is limited up to 100 mm in ArchiCAD. 

Martin Luther Jules
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