<div dir="auto"><div>Hi, </div><div dir="auto">A workaround I use I in my work is to actually use autocad for drawing the dimensions (or anything else) and then import a dxf file in qgis, either as shapes or as a vector layer. </div><div dir="auto">What I do is export a polygon in dxf, draw the dimensions in autocad and import it back into qgis. With a little styling, the dimensions will look exactly the same as in autocad. A tip is to use different layers in autocad as it's easier to apply styles in qgis afterwards.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope this helps,</div><div dir="auto">Alexandru</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 23:20 Nicolas Cadieux via Qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Chris,</p>
<p>Dimensions here are not annotations. I believe the original post
was referring to what AutoCad refers to as "Extrude" as seen here
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdysbeHHXo8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdysbeHHXo8</a>.</p>
<p>Cheer!<br>
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<p>Nicolas<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Nicolas, everyone,</div>
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<div>Sorry to top post here but I'm not sure where to start
below.</div>
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<div>What about just using the various drawing tools on the
print layout? Arrows can be added, annotation, polylines,
that sort of thing? Of course it's not in the original data /
layers, but is that important?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi,
<div><br>
<div>Qgis is not a CAD as you are discovering. Others
have given you good plugins and tools so I will not
add to that. You can still do “3D” as 3D objects like
lines, points and polygon are supported. You can use
the 3D map windows to visualize the 3D objects and a
DEM raster or mesh layers. I too am an
archaeologist. In the past, I have used simple 3D WKT
format in a text file to make 3D outlines of trenches
and survey holes. Looks like some plugins can now do
that for you now. QGIS is not quite there as a full
blown CAD but it’s as good as current Commercial GIS I
have worked with. Progress has been slow but steady.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Nicolas Cadieux
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Zoltán Siki via Qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">you can solve it using Geometry
Generator see: <a href="https://stuyts.xyz/2018/11/05/qgis-geometry-generator-examples-repository/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://stuyts.xyz/2018/11/05/qgis-geometry-generator-examples-repository/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a tool for
adding dimensions in QGIS. For those who
are wondering what I am talking about,
it is common in CAD drafting to add
dimensions to what you have drawn and
this is a whole part of a CAD program
where you can format dimensions …etc.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been asked to
add dimensions to an archaeological hole
I am digging on a QGIS map and I was
wondering whether there is a similar
dimensioning tool in QGIS.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Papyrus">Dr
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