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I am trying to implement the dimension lines and arrows into scs900. When I export the Design the text comes in but not the dimension lines. I was wondering if there is a way to get those in. I have yet to be able to include these with every version of th

  • 1.  I am trying to implement the dimension lines and arrows into scs900. When I export the Design the text comes in but not the dimension lines. I was wondering if there is a way to get those in. I have yet to be able to include these with every version of th

    Posted 11-29-2018 15:29

    Adding the dimension lines into my SCS900 Design. 



  • 2.  Re: I am trying to implement the dimension lines and arrows into scs900. When I export the Design the text comes in but not the dimension lines. I was wondering if there is a way to get those in. I have yet to be able to include these with every version o

    Posted 11-30-2018 03:02

    To make sure that I understand

     

    1) You are using the TBC Dimension command to dimension things in the project

    2) You are adding those Dimensions to the data selected for the Design for an SCS900 Project

    3) In SCS900 you get the Lines not the Dimension Arrows or Text

    4) You are using SCS900 not Siteworks?

     

    You can Explode the Dimension Objects in TBC v5 and export the components to the DXF file in a Design and they will look like this in SIteworks - my guess is they will look the same in SCS900 as they are just Lines and text after exploding - this was a VCL file with Exploded Dimensions

     

     

    This was a DXF File with Exploded Dimensions

     

    There does appear to be some issue in the DXF read / VCL Read by SCS900 / Siteworks that gets the text justification off centered (I Think the software just places a standard Text on the drawing (it doesn't appear to understand Fonts, Sizing, justification etc. from either DXF or VCL)

     

    I will send the product team this feedback but this at least gives you a path to get the Dimensions out to the field. I think the DXF will work the same in SCS900 if you are still using SCS900 not Siteworks. DXF appears to do better with the Text than Siteworks

     

    Alan