7.04 text arrows

[Gordon Martinsen <marty1@ihug.co.nz>]

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>I have mixed emotions regarding the new feature which coordinates the 
>text and dimension arrows.  I appreciate the desire for consistency, 
>but it does create one problem.  In our office, text and arrows are 
>yellow, dimensions are light magenta.  Hmmm.  One additional thing I 
>would like to see, however, would be a linking of text and dimension 
>settings for the text (once again, not including color).  Maybe I'm 
>the only one who does things this way.  If so, I'll gracefully bow 
>down to the wishes of the many.
>
>John Cluver
>Voith & Mactavish Architects
>jcluver@vma1.com
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I agree. I use 3 basic text sizes for each scale. If I am working with one
size for text it would seem logical that dimension settings such as offset
and overshoot which are scale related should match this setting. My work
around is to have an associative dimension set up for each scale in the
default drawing. Using "identify-set all" I can easily adjust my settings -
making this work for dimensions is one of the great features of v7. Before
that I wrote a macro for the different scales. I think that linking
dimension settings to text scale is the way to go.