Overall Dimension Location

[khronart]

Hello,

I have a graph that creates an overall dimension from an existing multi-segment dimension but it is placing two dimensions in the correct location and the other two inside the string instead of outside.

Dim - Overall from Segments.dyn (51.0 KB)
Please let me know if anyone has an idea on how to fix this.

Thanks

[Nick_Boyts]

Have you confirmed that the vector from Curve.NormalAtParameter is relative to the dimension direction? I’m guessing it’s the same vector regardless of dimension orientation and that’s your problem. You’d have to determine the orientation of the dimension and then apply a negative when left or bottom oriented.

[khronart]

I am not really sure how to get the Curve.NormalAtParameter to be relative to the dimension direction. I think that is my questions…

Thanks,

[c.poupin]

Hello,
try to find the offset vector using the origin of a dimension and the position of the associated text

[khronart]

I was able to fix it by making the furthest dimension have a negative distance.

Thanks for your help!