Hi Marc,

re:
> I guess this has been mentioned, the fractional display on the dimensions does not work.

Fractional display should be working if you set Formatting > Distance display > Feet & Inches, but you also need the current unit system (under Options > General > Units) to something other than "No unit system" for it to take effect.

If you have "No unit system" then it isn't able to determine how long a foot is so "feet & inches" type fractional display isn't able to work there.


> Otherwise I like the behaviour of dimensions, maybe the could be a stop on the
> resizing of the text when you zoom out at a certain point (perhaps when the text
> touches the arrows?).

Well there isn't actually any resizing of text currently. Right now text is always drawn at the same on-screen point size regardless of zoom. This does have a kind of sense that it is sizing when you zoom out and objects become smaller but text size remains the same.

I do want to experiment in the future with some options to shrink the text down when you zoom out. But doing it when the text touches arrows would result in a variety of different text sizes on different dimensions if some have plenty of room between the arrows and others do not. The other problem is that text blocks only have a single reference point and so there is no "in between" measurement to use for them.

It will probably need to be a setting for "Max text size in model units" or something like that so you could say make stuff smaller than 5 model units to be shrunk down. That's probably not going to happen for the v4 timeframe. But there is one more related area that I have left to work on for v4 which is an option to make the text size entirely controlled by model size so it both shrinks and grows in size when zoomed same as geometry does. One part that's not good about that is that it then can cause really large sized text. But that way will have better compatibility with how other CAD programs handle text.

Thanks,
- Michael