Dimensions


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Me again with a newbie question. I am used to Autocad and Revit when it comes to dimensioning.

 

I find using the dimensions in Chief Architect quite difficult to impossible so I am assuming I am doing it wrong.

 

My biggest pet peeve is when I am drawing and I pick a wall to verify it's location CA will then show some temp dimensions. These dimensions are invariably to the wrong walls or on the wrong side of the wall, etc. I invariably have to grab my calculator to add or subtract wall thicknesses, or add dimensions because the dimensions shown are to a different wall, etc.  Is there a way to cycle through dimensions?

 

Does this make any sense?

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Me again with a newbie question. I am used to Autocad and Revit when it comes to dimensioning.

I find using the dimensions in Chief Architect quite difficult to impossible so I am assuming I am doing it wrong.

My biggest pet peeve is when I am drawing and I pick a wall to verify it's location CA will then show some temp dimensions. These dimensions are invariably to the wrong walls or on the wrong side of the wall, etc. I invariably have to grab my calculator to add or subtract wall thicknesses, or add dimensions because the dimensions shown are to a different wall, etc. Is there a way to cycle through dimensions?

Does this make any sense?

Place your own dimensions and use those instead. You can also turn off temporary dimensions.
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Under default settings, you can also change the temporary dimension settings to something that works better for you. 

 

I find I am in and out of here often depending on what I am doing and what I need "located"

 

note that if you draw a manual Dim. you won't get a Temp. Dim in the same location or nearby , it has been suggested to change this behaviour to always on BTW.

 

M.

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