Vertical Baseline question

[P2P]

Visio has a default Vertical Baseline shape found under Dimensioning-Architectural and I've used it many times.  However, it works from bottom to top.  What do I need to do in order to use it top to bottom?  You can't flip it vertical because it seems to break the shape.  Anyone know?

Thanks.

[wapperdude]

Hmmmm.   

Flipped for me.  Drag a new instance of the shape from stencil (or duplicate an existing instance) and place it un-attached to anything on the drawing page.  <Cntl>+J will flip it vertically.  Doesn't break.

Wapperdude

[aledlund]

I think he wants the drawing base to switch (i.e. the 0 axis to be at the top of the drawing, not the bottom). The [0,0] point is bottom-left, not top-left....
al

[wapperdude]

Right. 

That's what cntl+J does.  Preserves the left-right orientation, and flips the top and bottom.  Now the shape origin is upper - left and the dimension shape will expand downward.  Like all of the other dimensioning shapes, it could be mirrored horizontally with cntl+H or by merely dragging the appropriate control points.

Don't make me draw a picture for this, it's pretty simple!        Yeah, I know, I'm not near the 1000 word limit for a single picture.   

Wapperdude