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Dimension line annotation tool #25561

Open qgib opened 6 years ago

qgib commented 6 years ago

Author Name: Eron Lloyd (Eron Lloyd) Original Redmine Issue: 17664

Redmine category:map_canvas

It's becoming easier and easier to stay in QGIS to do traditional CAD drawing operations with geospatial data. To add to this, it would be wonderful to be able to add dimensional lines traditionally used in CAD software such as AutoCAD or Sketchup. ArcGIS has made this available as a good reference for what it could look like: http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/creating-new-features/about-the-dimension-construction-tools.htm.

Because the dimension is indirectly related to the feature, it should probably remain an annotation type and utilize the existing functionality of the measurement tools.

qgib commented 6 years ago

Author Name: Berteh B (Berteh B)

You can already use the Geodesic Measurement Tool for this purpose if I understand you correctly: measure the different segments you want to have, and click "save to layer" to turn the generated measurements into shapes.

antoniolocandro commented 1 year ago

There are a couple of options to do this using styles see https://plugins.qgis.org/styles/5/ . https://plugins.qgis.org/styles/21/