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This is not a big wish - when doing as built drawings, we sometimes write dims in feet and inches, and other times in inches. So, when we dimension the drawing to check things, and to look for how to resolve an issue, it is easiest to have the dims in the units that we measured them. Can we have a quicker way to change a number / group of dims from the drawing default feet and inches to inches? Right clicking and selecting Properties, then the pulldown menu to select Inch/Frac and then click Apply to every dim takes more time that I'd like.

What about
Change/Dimensions/Lock Scale and then select by area/group

Okay, I should have posted this to the "How Do I ..." section. I didn't realize the Lock Scale option lets you choose the new scale type.

Here's a Wish List item - to make the T Intersection cleanup simpler and faster. The "select line to trim to" should not be required. Here's an illustration:



In any of these situations, the intended trim line is ALWAYS going to be the line near the cursor. I have drawn the selection areas, and there is no reason to have to select the line to trim to. If you ever trimmed to the other line of the vertical wall in this illustration, it would result in an "Escher" wall that folds space in a way that would never exist.

For quick changing the dimensions to lock them in at another scale type, I created alias' so that pressing the CRTL, space bar, and a couple of letters, gets me right to picking the dimension to change or to encircle all dimensions using the Window menu choice. Below are my aliases

Change dimen to inches:
[CHIN]
comment=Change dimen to locked inches
alias=^:^F8^F1^S8^S1^F5^S0^F1^

Change dimen to decimal (I use this a lot with site plans to match up to the decimal dims used by surveyors):
[CHDEC]
comment=Change dimen to locked decimel 2 places
alias=^:^F8^F1^S8^S1^F4^S5^S4^S5^F2^S0^S0^F1^

I am wondering if it would be possible to have the Layer Manager, and the Symbol Browser use the feature in Windows, where you drag and "bump" them on the side of a (second) monitor and the would automatically resize and locate on that half of the screen?

Can the Fat Cursor be a setting that is tied to the computer; rather than the drawing? When I set it to 4 in 1 drawing, it is odd that I have to change it again when I toggle over to another drawing.

We could use a GTV Manager - just like we use the Layer Manager. On projects with as many as 11 or 12 menu pages of GTVs - they need to be reordered and/or renamed, and paging between all the menus to do this can get tedious.

Maybe - a tab can be added to the LM for a GTVM? We have the GTV Update function on the LM - this could be expanded to function as a GTV Manager?

Here's a wish that probably has been requested before - when you have the cursor "tilted" with Tangents, it would be excellent to have horizontal and vertical dimensions be automatically "tilted" to the same angle as the cursor.

Can we have the APERTURE use the same settings as FAT CURSOR?

I would like it if Stacked Fractions also applied to Inch/Fraction associative dims.

And can we get associative diameter and radius dims, please?