Scaled drawings/dimension lines

[Jørgensen]

Just purchased the Affinity Designer v.2.5.3 wanting to make scaled drawings of my house. I note that the help menu tells me that "Measurements are not persistent, are non-printable and are not saved with your document."

How can I work around this, since I will have to make chains of dimensions on my plan drawings?

[Artistwright]

I would also love to ability to have the measurements stay on screen after using the measure tool. Would be so handy.

Right now i'm creating the shown measurements the manual way (typing them out) and adding a stroke and arrow heads etc. If anyone has a quicker way i'd be most grateful.

 

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, Jørgensen said:

wanting to make scaled drawings of my house

Just out of interest - since I also made similar plans recently, are you not making the drawing/plan based on the actual, i.e. accurately measured, house? So you already know the measurements of the house, because you draw the plans according to them, and so you can then directly enter them into the prepared dimensions? (i have prepared vertical and horizontal groups with dimension text, extension and dimension lines).

[GarryP]

14 hours ago, Artistwright said:

If anyone has a quicker way i'd be most grateful.

This might be of some (very?) limited use: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/102574-very-simple-dimensioning-objects/