Tape Dim Context Menu

Right-click a placed tape dim on desktop, or long-press one on mobile, to open the tape dim context menu. It's the smallest of the entity context menus — just Duplicate and Delete Tape Dim — but it has one specific interaction with the dim's properties that's worth flagging.

For property edits (line color, label color, label size, end style, dashed vs solid, label background), use the entity panel after selecting the tape dim. The context menu doesn't host those.

How to open the menu

• Desktop: right-click anywhere on the tape dim — the line itself, the label, or the endpoints all count as hits.
• Mobile: long-press the tape dim. The browser's default right-click menu is suppressed on web so the app menu opens instead.

If the tape dim isn't already selected, opening the menu selects it. If it's already part of a multi-selection, the selection is preserved — see the multi-select section below for what the menu does and doesn't carry over from the other entity menus.

Menu entries

Entry	What it does
Duplicate	Drops a copy of just this tape dim at an offset, sharing the same style (line color, label color, font size, end style, dashed/solid, label background). The duplicate becomes the new selection.
Delete Tape Dim	Removes the tape dim. Undo brings it back as one step. The label colour leans red on this entry to flag it as destructive.

What's NOT on the menu

A few things look like they belong here but live elsewhere:

• Line color / label color / label size — open the tape dim's entity panel after selecting it. The Tape Dim panel hosts the full styling pickers plus an "Apply to all" bulk button.
• End style (architectural ticks / engineering arrows) — entity panel.
• Dashed or solid line — entity panel.
• Label background color — entity panel.
• Reshape an endpoint — drag the endpoint directly. See Dimension snapping and hover for the drag rules and the orange hover ring that flags an endpoint as grabbable.
• Translate the whole dim — drag the dim's label or line body. Same drag, no menu entry.

Multi-select behaviour

The tape dim menu does NOT carry a Duplicate Selection (N items) entry, even when the tape dim is part of a multi-selection. That entry is only on the fixture and wall context menus. So right-clicking a tape dim that's part of a multi-select group:

• Preserves the multi-selection (doesn't collapse it).
• Opens the same two-entry menu: Duplicate and Delete Tape Dim.
• Both entries act on the single tape dim you right-clicked, NOT the whole selection.

To duplicate or delete a multi-select group that includes a tape dim, do one of:

• Right-click a fixture or wall in the same selection — those menus DO carry Duplicate Selection (N items).
• Press the Delete key to delete the whole multi-selection at once.

If you right-click a tape dim that ISN'T part of the current selection, the selection collapses to just that tape dim before the menu opens.

Tape dim vs segment dim

The context menu in this article applies to tape dims (the line-and-label entity placed by the Tape Measure tool in Dimension line mode). A segment dim — placed by the Dimension tool, see How to add a dimension — is technically an annotation, so it uses the annotation context menu instead:

Menu	Used on
Tape dim context menu (this article)	Tape dims placed via the Tape Measure tool's Dimension line mode
Annotation context menu	Segment dims, text annotations, and leader text

The annotation menu carries different entries — Duplicate, Bring to Front, Send to Back, and Delete — because annotations have a z-order that tape dims don't share. If you're looking for "Bring to Front" on a tape dim, it doesn't exist — tape dims render with the rest of the dim layer, not as overlapping annotations.

Tips

• The duplicate places the copy at a small offset so the original and copy don't perfectly overlap — you can see both right after the duplicate and drag the copy to its new location without first hunting for it.
• The right-click menu on the canvas itself (empty space) doesn't carry tape dim entries — those only appear when the right-click is on a tape dim hit.
• On a busy plan, if right-click isn't picking up the tape dim, try clicking closer to the line or the label specifically — the hit test prefers tape dims OVER the underlying canvas, but other entities (annotations) can win the hit test if they're stacked above.