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Sometimes, however, a single dimension style doesn't seem to be enough. For example, you may want to have your linear measurements measured to the nearest thousandth of a unit, but you may only want to have your radial measurements shown in the nearest hundredth of a unit. You could create two dimension styles, one for linear measurements and one for radial measurements. A better solution, however, is to create a single dimension style, and then use families of that style to tell AutoCAD how radial dimensions should be treated differently that linear dimensions.
In this exercise, you modify a dimension style so it supports families of dimensions.
Prior to proceeding with this lesson, open the 7401e.dwg.
- From the Dimension menu, choose Dimension Style.
- From the list of Dimension styles, choose ANSI-MECH.
- Choose New.
- In the Use for list, choose Linear Dimensions.
- Choose Continue to exit this window.
- On the Lines tab, from the Color list, choose Red.
- Choose OK to exit this dialog box.
- Choose Close to exit this dialog box. Note that the previously created linear dimension reflects the new linear dimension style.
- From the Dimension menu, choose Dimension Style.
- Select ANSI-MECH from the list of dimension styles, if it's not already selected.
- Choose Modify.
- On the Text tab, in the Text height list, type .25.
- Choose OK to exit this dialog box.
- Choose Close to exit this window. Note that all the dimension text changed size. This is because you made the change to the parent dimension style.
This tutorial continues . . .
