Navigate the New Dimension Style dialog

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Controls on the lines tab are divided into two group boxes

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for controlling settings related to the dimension line and extension lines.

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For example, you can control the color line type and line weight of these elements.

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Adjust the spacing between dimension lines,

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the gap between the object and the extension line origin and so on.

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Switch to the symbols and arrows. Tab

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controls on this tab are organized into six different

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group boxes for controlling arrowheads center marks dimension breaks,

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arc length symbols, radius, jog dimensions and linear jog dimensions.

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In the arrowheads group box note that you can assign different

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arrowhead styles to each end of the dimension line and to leaders

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expand the first drop down.

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The program comes with a large selection of arrowhead styles.

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You can also select a user defined arrowhead

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choose architectural tick

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note that by default,

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the second arrowhead changes so that the same arrowhead style

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is used at each end of the dimension line.

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Whenever you make a change, the preview image updates,

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switch to the text tab.

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In the text appearance group box, you can control the textile, text color,

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fill color, text height and so on

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note that dimension text is based on an existing textile

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other controls on this tab.

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Let you adjust how text displaced and aligned in the drawing

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controls on the fit tab determine how the program handles situations.

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When the text and arrowheads cannot both fit inside the extension lines.

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You can also control whether the dimension style is annotative

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and fine tune. The placement of dimension text

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controls on the remaining three tabs are all related to the dimension text

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on the primary units tab,

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you can control the format and appearance of the primary dimension text.

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In the linear dimensions group box, expand the unit format drop down

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here. You can choose the type of units,

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for example. Although the drawing units are set to decimal, choose architectural

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expand the precision drop down.

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Since you chose architectural units,

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the precision is now measured in fractional inches.

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Select 1/8 inch

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controls in the angular dimensions group box.

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Let you specify the unit format and precision for angular dimensions.

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Switch to the alternate units tab.

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Here you can control whether alternate units are included and if so

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adjust their formatting.

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For example, suppose you want to include millimeters as an alternate unit.

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In addition

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to the architectural primary units,

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first select the display alternate units, check box to enable alternate units.

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Then in the alternate units group box leave the unit format set to

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decimal and note that the multiplier for alt units is already set to 25.4

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which is the number of millimeters in an inch.

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Other controls on this tab are similar to those

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on the primary units tab but affect the alternate units

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on the tolerances tab.

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You can control the inclusion and formatting of tolerances.

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Note that to include tolerance dimensions

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in the tolerance format group box, you must first expand the method, drop down

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and select any method other than none.

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For example, select symmetrical

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the other controls then become available.

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So you can adjust the other tolerance settings.

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Note that when you include alternate units,

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any tolerance you include will be added to the alternate units as well.

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Expand the method drop down and change this back to none

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when you are finished adjusting settings for the new dimension style click. OK.

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That style is immediately added to the list and becomes the current dimension style

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click close to close the dimension style manager dialogue.