Issue 16443

Summary: vertical or horizontal constraint for dimension lines
Product: Draw Reporter: bryancole <bryan.cole>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P2 CC: don.troodon, haxwell, issues
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2Keywords: oooqa
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux, all   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Shows how vertical or horizontal dimensions should look. none

Description bryancole 2003-07-04 11:29:15 UTC 
Hi, this is a feature request:

The current dimension-lines feature of OO-draw has limited use-ability, because
it is not possible to create horizontal or vertical dimensions for
*non-vertically or non-horizontally aligned points*.

When drawing a dimension line between two points which are offset in *both* X
and Y, it is normally desirable to have the dimension line indicate *either* the
X *or* the Y dimension, not the diagonal length, X**2 + Y**2.

I'll attach an example drawing to illustrate good and bad dimensioning.
Obviously I don't expect OO-draw to be a full like specialised CAD program, but
since it's got a "dimensions" feature, this feature should at least be made
useful. In it's current implementation, drawing horizontal/vertical dimensions
is way too fiddly. The developers should take a look at a 2D CAD program to see
how *useful* dimension-lines are created (e.g. www.qcad.org)

cheers,
Bryan
Comment 1 bryancole 2003-07-04 11:30:31 UTC 
Created attachment 7402 [details]
Shows how vertical or horizontal dimensions should look.
Comment 2 wolframgarten 2003-07-04 12:10:07 UTC 
Reassigned to Bettina.
Comment 3 thackert 2004-12-05 14:59:24 UTC 
I have seen that this issue was assigned to 1.1beta2 and has no target milestone. Furthermore I have 
seen that there was no entry since July 2003. Have you tried a newer version like 1.1.3, 1.1.4rc or some 
1.9.xx, if it is implemented there? If so: Could this issue be closed by the original reporter?
Comment 4 bryancole 2004-12-06 10:17:24 UTC 
Hmmm. I just downloaded and installed OOo-1.9.62.

The Dimension Lines feature appears to have been completely removed. Is this
permanent?

As a scientist, OOo-Draw is *great* for technical drawings. Vertical and
Horizontal dimension lines would be a huge enhancement in this area, however
(althouth the old style dimension lines were not that useful, for the reasons I
already explained).
Comment 5 thackert 2005-01-01 14:43:48 UTC 
Sorry for the delay ...
I cannot tell you if the Dimension Line feature is disabled for some reason, removed or something ... :( I am just a QA-guy .
.. ;)
Comment 6 haxwell 2005-02-09 16:36:41 UTC 
This is a feature the user wants but does not have. Confirming it as a new
enhancement issue.
Comment 7 Regina Henschel 2007-12-07 21:16:41 UTC 
You know, that you can constraint the directions by holding down shift-key while
drawing?
Comment 8 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:01:16 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".