Not if you were using PS & vports.... try this:
[begin tutorial] Create a vport and scale your shaft to a workable scale....stretching the vport to fit. Now dim your shaft or whatever and move the dim text close to the left end, then copy the vport on top of its self. Now hilight one vport and drag the RIGHT side to the left (near that dim we moved). Clear your grips and drag the LEFT side of the other vport way off to the right and, while it's still hot, move it left, close to the first vport. Finally, place your break lines in PS, perp to the edges of the relevant vports! Sounds complicated but it's really not. With a bit of practice you can create multiple vports to dim a series of holes or
in your shaft. [/end tutorial]
We use this method all the time and it works "a treat" as my down-under friends would say.
If you're interested, I could be persuaded to do a series of screen-shots showing the steps.......?