AutoCAD For Dummies by Ralph Grabowski

Author:Ralph Grabowski [Grabowski, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119868781
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2022-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Adjusting style settings

After you click New or Modify in the Dimension Style Manager dialog box, AutoCAD displays a tabbed New Dimension Style dialog box or Modify Dimension Style dialog box (the two dialog boxes are identical except for their title bars) with a mind-boggling — and potentially drawing-boggling, if you’re not careful — array of settings.

Fortunately, the dimension preview that appears on all tabs — as well as on the main Dimension Style Manager dialog box — immediately shows the results of most setting changes. With the dimension preview and some trial-and-error setting changes, you can usually home in on an acceptable group of settings. For more information, use the Help feature in the dialog box: Just hover the mouse pointer over the setting that you want to know more about.

If you find the preview image hard to read in the Dimension Style Manager, New Dimension Style, or Modify Dimension Style dialog boxes, click and drag the right edge of the dialog box to increase the size of the preview image.

Before you start messing with dimension style settings, know what you want your dimensions to look like when they’re plotted. If you’re not sure how it’s done in your industry, ask others in your office or profession, or look at a plotted drawing that someone in the know represents as being a good example. A general rule, that I’ve found to be helpful in virtually all aspects of life, is to stick with the defaults unless you know specifically what you want to change and why.

The following few sections introduce you to the more important tabs in the New/Modify Dimension Style dialog boxes and highlight the most useful settings. Note that whenever you specify a distance or length setting, you should enter size you want it to be when the drawing is plotted. I discuss plotting size and scale factors in Chapters 13 (text) and 15 (hatching) and later in this chapter.

When you have everything set the way you want it, click OK to close the Modify Dimension Style dialog box, and then click Close to exit Dimension Style Manager. The new style is now current.

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