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  1. Automatic dimension/measuring tool please

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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAkshaya Saxena (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    We have done further updates to Dimension tool with recently released version - 28.3


    You can create and use your custom scale for dimension, hide or show units on dimensions and dimensions are now sticky to the object - they transform as well when you transform the object.

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    Scott Ritchings commented  · 

    As a user with only basic measurement needs, this tool makes way more sense than buying CADTools. (Thanks, Adobe!) Not sure if this is the place for it, or if it should have its own Idea, but after putting the Dimension Tool through its paces, a few issues I'd love to see addressed:

    1. For the Dimension Tool to ignore any earlier dimension lines. Sometimes I need to measure off of a line that's under another dimension line.

    2. The ability to put the dimension aligned within the line. Not above, not below. ie. ------ 00.00 -------

    3. A labelling tool with custom text, ABC, or 123 options.

    4. Smaller fractions! Some of us work really small, and 1/64" is important without rounding.

    5. For the tool to honour the precision. If I indicate I want precision as '0.00', I don't want it simplified with no decimal if it's a whole number. The 'x.00' is reassuring to clients to let them know the tool isn't rounding.

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