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Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Karansawaitul — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:17:12 -0000

how to dimension a rectange in such a way that when both the sides are selected the the matter comes automatically in the form (for ex 2.4 x 3.6)...plz help..

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

levi kamanga — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:52:35 -0000

The leader problem!
My drawing has hundreds leaders under the ISO-25 dimstyles which do not appear when i plot the drawing! I have created a new dimstyle setting the leader arrow size to 10 since the default ISO-25 arrow size is 2.5 and too small to appear on my paper A1!
Whenever i quickselect the leaders to changes them to my new dimstyle with arrow size 10 they become smaller than before!
Help me!

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

James Clair — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:40:37 -0000

Some cases use alternate dims as ref only, therefore no tolerance.
So the question is:
How do I suppress alternate dimension tolerance but, leave tolerance on the primary dimension?

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Petra — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:09:07 -0000

Hello,

I currently work on a project where I draw in cm and normally I also dimension the complete project in cm.But I have a situation where I would like to leave the drawing as it is in origin in cm,but measure it in meters! Hope there is such a setting to help me do that? I kindly thank you in advance and greet you!
Petra

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Erhan Toker — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:15:24 -0000

Привет Владимир
:-)
After opening dimension style dialog (DDIM command) choose 'Alternate Units'. Check the 'Display Alternate Units' box. In the units list, select the 'Engineering units'. That's all.

Hope this helps.

Erhan

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Vladimir Kshiminskiy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:23:52 -0000

Hello.
How can I set dimention style to be in Metric & English at same time. So when you dimetioning it is showing bouth ?

Thank you.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

bhupinder singh — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:23:36 -0000

i am not understand of your langauge

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Damian — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:47:38 -0000

I'd like to use a LISP routine to set up new dimension styles automatically. I'm fine setting all the DIM variable and such but for the life of me I can't find a typed command to create a new style. -DIMSTYLE gives the options to change style options but actually creating a new style appears to only be possible through a dialogue box. Any thoughts?

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Erhan Toker — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:48:44 -0000

Hello Joe,
This is an interesting question :-). Dimension styles, text styles, layers and others are saved in style tables. Style tables are reside in drawing files. I do not know the actual number, or if there is a limitation. But i guess that it's limited by your file system ( drawing file size grows with style definitions ). I think, there is enough room for average use :-)
Hope this helps

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

jOe M. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:08:12 -0000

HOW MANY DIMENSION STYLES CAN YOU CREATE WITHIN AUTOCAD?

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Orhan Toker — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:51:32 -0000

Hello sachin,

Make sure that you have no dimensions using that styles. Ande use purge command to delete them.

Regards

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Sachin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:18:13 -0000

How can we delete old dimension styles from a drawing?

Thanks.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

shashis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:02:35 -0000

i want to draw a leader line overlaping the dimension line.it should be a loop or arc in the leader line while crossing the dimension line please give me any lisp program

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

anil js — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:31:59 -0000

how can we select or take out a perticular area of elements outside from a large layout. without any need of extra elements coming with them and we are suppose to trim it.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

sivram — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:21:49 -0000

very good for learning

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Erhan Toker — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:51:28 -0000

Hello Phil,

I could not realize in my mind, what you explain. But i think you need MLEADER command to do it. Our natural language is Turkish. So we're issuing our articles in Turkish first. We already issued a series about MLEADER command in Turkish.
http://www.autocadgunlugu.c...
This article will be available in English as soon as possible. If your problem is not with MLEADER, please manually create a drawing indicates what you need and send us.
Thnaks

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Phil — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:36:17 -0000

Hello sir I work at a firm and can not quite remember possible configurations for leader line placement for example lets say I would like to call out simpson hangers 4 total, 2 per window in two windows which are 4 feet apart. If I only want to use two total leader lines on one set of multiple lined text where do I place the leader lines? Is it one leader line on the left at the top row of text and the right side at the bottom row of the text or do I place both the left and the right in the middle I will check back later.
Again thankyou

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Ryan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:14:20 -0000

Thanks for the fast reply Erhan.
If you do come across a way to create a dim style like the one I am looking for could you please let me know. I will check back once in while to see if you posted anything.
Thanks again for the help with the fractions.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Erhan Toker — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:28:18 -0000

Hello Ryan,
You can set fraction style to diagonal or horizontal. This makes fractional part more readable. I don't know anoher way to do that you said.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Ryan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:16:35 -0000

Hello,
I just remembered another question you might be able to help me with.
I was wondering if there was any way to change the scale factor of a fraction in a text style, without having to create a separate text style just fr fractions.
Example: If I wanted to type in a measurement of 10'-1-1/4", is there anyway to get AutoCAD to automatically change the fractions scale size. So that it would look like this, 10’-1¼”??

Thanks again.

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Ryan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:53:58 -0000

Hello,
I was wondering if you might be able to help me set a specific dimension style.

I am trying to show only the ext lines with the text being aligned vertically with 2nd ext line.
I know how to suppress the dim lines to leave only the ext lines, the part I can't get is to have the text aligned vertically with the 2nd ext line?

If you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

Orhan Toker — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:11:05 -0000

Hi,

Firstly open a new drawing using architectural template. And set units to architectural (from format menü). Finally be sure that your primary units set to architectural in dimension stye dialogue.

Bye

Re: Understanding Basics of Dimension Style

RS — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:50:02 -0000

Hello
Can you please explain me how the units are set when drawing is to be drawn in feet and inches.I want to know the setting by which when I draw a line with input 4 ,it is drawn in feet and not in inches.Which means that when I dimemsion it it should show dimension as 4' and not 4"
Thank you