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| Posted by Grant_Edwards at Mar 25, 2009, 4:38:00 AM |
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Can't get dimension lines to work I just installed 1.7 on Linux, and am failing pretty miserably at trying to create a floorplan based on measurements I've taken. I've done this many times before with other floorplan packages, but apparently there's something fundamentally different about the paradigm used by sweethome3d that I'm unable to understand. First, I can't get dimension lines to work at all. They won't stay attached to the features they're measuring. For example, I create a dimension line showing the inside distance between two walls. When a wall moves, the dimension line endpoint doesn't move when the wall does -- it just sits there uselessly measuring distance to a point in "empty space". It seems as if dimension lines aren't dimensioning actual drawing features, it's like they're just lines of arbitrary length and position that are unrelated to anything else on the drawing. How do I get dimension lines to be "real" dimensions that correspond to distance between features on the drawing? What I'm trying to do is create rooms with specified inside dimensions. It's not clear what the "length" of a wall really means, but it doesn't seem to correspond to inside dimensions. So, I created inside dimension lines and then tried to adjust wall positions to get the required inside dimensions. That doesn't work in a couple ways: 1) the inside dimensions don't change when the wall moves. 2) walls keep coming "disconnected" from each other when I try adjust them. I've read through the users guide, but apparently I need something a lot more basic that explains the underlying paradigm, because I'm constantly surprised by the behavior I see. Is there any documentation for people who don't already understand how the program works? -- Grant [Note: this thread was started on sourceforge.net forums] |
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