What to do about R6 Dimension Styles?

[fraguada]

What would be the strategy to add support for Rhino 6 Dimension styles without polluting SpeckleCore with app specific stuff? I guess SpeckleAnnotation can have user data, so that might be the place to start? Then during deserialization, if R6, check UD and if there is a DimStyle entry, suck it up. 🤔

[didimitrie]

What about creating a new SpeckleObject in Core that handles dimensions, ie SpeckleDimension? Would have SpeckleAnnotation for:

• text dots
• text

SpeckleDimension:

• linear dim
• radial dims
• etc.

Watcha think? It's wide used enough to enable this as a fundamental object?

[fraguada]

DimensionStyles in R6 apply to all AnnotationBase objects, including TextEntity, lineardims, etc.. let's say, these are attributes that go along with all annotations. I'm not sure this is a universal pattern.

[didimitrie]

so then it doesn't make sense to split them up? my lizard brain says yes, but then we could resolve this by adding _type prop to spk annotations that tells us more explicitly what it is, and then we just leave everything else for the properties/UD

[fraguada]

Moving this to 0.6.0 for now. There should be basic Text / TextDot support in 0.5.0. Relates to #113.