From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 4 Annotating a Drawing
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Controlling appearance using styles - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 4 Annotating a Drawing
Controlling appearance using styles
In the same way the appearance of our text is controlled by a text style, the appearance of our dimensions is controlled by a dimension style. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to create a dimension style. On my screen, I have a pair of mechanical parts. This one on the left has already been dimensioned and it was dimensioned using the default settings. I'd like to dimension this part on the right. Before I do that, let's take a look at the dimension styles that we have in this drawing. I'll open the Annotation panel, and I'll click the Dimension Style menu, and you can see that we only have one style, Standard, that was the style that was used to create all of these dimensions. I'd like to create a new style. To do that, I'll click the Dimension Style icon. This brings up the Dimension Style Manager. Over here on the left, I can see a listing of the dimension styles in this drawing. On the right are a series of icons that I can use to manage dimension styles. I can set a style…
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