bddemers Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I have a simple straight CAD line on my lot plan. No buildings, just laying out the property to setup driveway/parking areas. I selected 'show arrows' and 'show dimensions'. They don't show up. Any ideas? I checked the display table...everything is check marked. Line weights, color, etc look good. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 4 minutes ago, bddemers said: I have a simple straight CAD line on my lot plan. No buildings, just laying out the property to setup driveway/parking areas. I selected 'show arrows' and 'show dimensions'. They don't show up. Any ideas? I checked the display table...everything is check marked. Line weights, color, etc look good. Thanks. Did you use manual dimensions or automatic? did you pull any dimensions, they don't show up automatically... Can you Post your plan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Where did you select "show arrows" and "show dimensions"? In a dialog box? In the layer display options? I'm confused, because I've never run across that specific language in Chief. Show us a screen shot of where these settings are, and it will help us give you an answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I assume the OP meant "Show Length" and "Show Angle" (if I remember the correct terminology). My guess is that the text style is currently just too small to see. Select the line, check what layer it's on, and change the text style for that layer to something with a much larger text height. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bddemers Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 Zoomed way in and they are there. At that zoom, I'm only showing 50' of the road frontage. I need the dimension and arrows to show when I'm looking/printing the full 900'. Is that possible? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bddemers Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 The line I'm talking about goes from the bottom right corner to the left side of the little box (driveway). Again, maybe I did it the wrong way...I used a CAD Line and simply opened the object and selected show arrows and show dimension. They are there, but too small. I did try to use a dimension tool, but could not get the angle/end points correct. The CAD Line allows me to set the angle to any fraction of a degree I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 36 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said: I assume the OP meant "Show Length" and "Show Angle" (if I remember the correct terminology). My guess is that the text style is currently just too small to see. Select the line, check what layer it's on, and change the text style for that layer to something with a much larger text height. I believe Michael gave you the answer. Determine the scale you want to use for the lot plan, then define a text style to print at the size you want for that scale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bddemers Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 Got the dimension tool to work using the parallel tool. I did get the arrows to get bigger on the CAD line, but never could get the dimension to show up bigger by changing the default text style....anyway, it looks how I need now. Thanks everyone!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMc Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Draw the line while using the plot plan annotation set (OOB) then set the text style there so as not to create issues with text elsewhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bddemers Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 Whoa Mark, that's advanced! Thank you. I'll check that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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