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Creating dimension substyles

Creating dimension substyles

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Creating dimension substyles

In this video, you'll learn how to make dimension substyles. Open the Architectural4 sample file in the Chapter 10 folder to begin, and then type D + Enter to open up the Dim style command. Right now we have a standard dimension style that is current. And the drawing also contains a separate dimension style called annotative. I'll talk more about annotative styles in another video. One thing I'd like to do is change the arrow heads that we have on things like a radius dimension. The architectural tick mark doesn't really cut it in my opinion. You see down here? There's a radius value that has a tick mark on it. I think this would be better if it had an arrow head. But I don't want to change all of the architectural tick marks because I like the way that they appear on linear dimensions and angular dimensions. So, this is where a substyle can come in handy. To create a substyle, click the New button and here I'm not even going to name it, because I'm going to change what it's used for.…

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