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Retain drafting dimension alignment on rotate/mirror


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Is there a way to retain alignment on dimension labels or regenerate them using current consturction plane? While mcam's drafing features are undoubtedly sub-par, I find the "Point" dimension to be very useful for creating helper profile drawings for lathe machinists. SW does not have a similar feature (if there is, I'd be happy to know). However, too often somebody comes and says "I want this profile mirrored" and then I have to redo everything because:

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10 hours ago, SlaveCam said:

Is there a way to retain alignment on dimension labels or regenerate them using current consturction plane? While mcam's drafing features are undoubtedly sub-par, I find the "Point" dimension to be very useful for creating helper profile drawings for lathe machinists. SW does not have a similar feature (if there is, I'd be happy to know). However, too often somebody comes and says "I want this profile mirrored" and then I have to redo everything because:

image.png.270d79c2b1e73e456bdf8d9be4ae0b8f.png

 

Convert everything to geometry and mirror everything together.

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14 hours ago, SlaveCam said:

Is there a way to retain alignment on dimension labels or regenerate them using current consturction plane? While mcam's drafing features are undoubtedly sub-par, I find the "Point" dimension to be very useful for creating helper profile drawings for lathe machinists. SW does not have a similar feature (if there is, I'd be happy to know). However, too often somebody comes and says "I want this profile mirrored" and then I have to redo everything because:

image.png.270d79c2b1e73e456bdf8d9be4ae0b8f.png

 

Multi-Edit maybe?

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