Re: DIA Dimensioning

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 26.04.2012 21:26, Michael Ross wrote:
> You can't  "dimension" anything in the sense of an engineering drawing
> (arrows between witness lines and numbers describing length, etc.) except
> letter by letter and line by line - no automation.
With Dia 0.97 a new "Misc - Measure" object is available, which allows to 
adjust scale and unit, but there is no fractional option.

> If you mean the rulers, and margin setting, no fractions.
>
> The system is at its heart in centimeters.  No fraction are necessary with
> metric systems.
>
> Being that Dia is open source you could try and code the fractions into Dia
> yourself.
See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133644#c4 for a starting point.

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