Define an annotative dimension style

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While you can certainly make any existing dimension annotative,

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a better approach is to make the dimension style annotative.

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Any new dimension that you create using

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an annotative dimension style will be annotative

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on the home ribbon

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in the layers panel, expand the layer drop down and turn on layer one.

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Now you see a diameter dimension.

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When you hover the cursor over this dimension,

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you do not see the annotative object

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badge because this dimension is not annotative.

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And when you change the annotation scale to 1 to 2,

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the non

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annotative dimension does not change

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rather than changing an individual dimension to make it annotative,

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you can change the dimension style so that all

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dimensions created using that style will by definition be annotative

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to do so

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on the annotate ribbon

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in the dimensions panel,

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click the dialogue box launcher to open the dimension style manager.

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In the styles list, you see three existing dimension styles.

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One is already annotative as indicated by the presence

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of an annotative badge adjacent to the style name,

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the other two styles are not annotative,

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but you can easily make a non annotative style into an annotative style.

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In the list select my dim style, if it is not already selected

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and then click, modify to open the modified dimension style dialogue

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controls on the various tabs. Let you adjust all aspects of the dimension style.

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But in this case, you only need to make a single change

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on the fit tab.

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In the scale for dimension features group box,

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simply select the annotative check box,

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then click OK.

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Now in the dimension style manager

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in the styles list,

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an annotative badge appears adjacent to my dim style.

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Click close to close the dimension style manager

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on the status bar change the annotation scale back to 1 to 1,

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then change it back to 1 to 2. Again,

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the diameter dimension did not change.

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And when you hover the cursor over that dimension,

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you do not see an annotative badge

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although you changed its dimension style so that the style is now annotative.

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Any dimensions created using that style before you

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made the change do not automatically become annotative

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change the annotation scale back to 1 to 1

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then select the diameter dimension

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in the properties palate.

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You can see that although the dimension uses the my dim style dimension style,

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which you can see is indeed an annotative style.

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The annotative property is set to know

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just as you can make non annotative dimensions.

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Annotative by simply changing this property

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dimensions created using an annotative style can be non annotative as well.

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While you could fix this by simply changing the annotative property.

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There is another way

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type

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Anno

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update.

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As soon as you see the command in the autocomplete field press enter

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since the dimension was already selected,

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it is automatically updated and the command ends.

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Now the dimension is indeed annotative

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change. The annotation scale back to 1 to 2,

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the other dimensions change size, but the diameter dimension has disappeared

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because it does not currently have a representation at

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that scale

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on the status bar.

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Toggle the annotation visibility tool so that you can see all annotative objects.

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Now you can see the diameter dimension

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select it

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right click.

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And in the shortcut menu, choose annotation object scale, add current scale,

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then toggle off the annotation visibility tool

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on the annotate ribbon

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in the dimensions panel, make sure that my dim style is the current dimension style.

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Start the dimension tool,

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move the cursor over the arc in the lower right corner of the object,

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add a radial dimension

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and then press enter to end the command.

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Since you created this new dimension using an annotative dimension style,

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the dimension is annotative.

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When you hover the cursor over that dimension,

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you see an annotative badge.

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But at present,

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it only has one scale representation.

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The scale at which it was created

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change the annotation scale to 1 to 1

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as soon as you

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do,

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the radial dimension disappears

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on the status bar toggle on the annotation visibility tool.

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Now you can see the radial dimension

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but it is the wrong size

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on the annotate ribbon

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in the annotation scaling panel, click add current scale,

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select the radial dimension you just created and

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then press enter to complete your selection,

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toggle off the annotation visibility tool

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and then change the annotation scale to 1 to 2.

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Now that the new dimension has a representation at both scales.

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It automatically adjusts when you change the annotation scale.

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As you have seen,

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any dimension can be made annotative. A dimension style can be made annotative.

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And any new dimension created using an annotative

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dimension style will automatically be an annotative dimension.