The Dimension Style command controls the appearance and formatting of all dimension types in your drawing. This ensures consistent dimension presentation throughout your project.
🔹 How to Use
- Activate the command: Select the Dimension Style tool from the toolbar.
- Review current settings: The dialog shows all current dimension formatting options.
- Modify appearance: Adjust colors, text height, arrows, and other visual properties.
- Set layer assignment: Configure automatic layer placement for dimensions.
- Save settings: Use "Save as default" to preserve your settings for future drawings.
🔹 Key Settings
- Text height: Set dimension text size (typically 3.5mm).
- Colors: Configure colors for dimension lines and text.
Witness lines: Control extension line appearance and offset distances.
- A show the witness line extension and B Witness line origin.
Arrow length: Set the size of dimension line arrows.
- A It's possible to set the length of the arrows.
- B is the first-dimension snap distance.
- C is adjacent dimension snap distance.
- Decimal precision: Control how many decimal places appear in dimensions.
🧠Tips
- Template integration: Configure dimension styles in drawing templates for consistency.
- Layer control: Assign dimensions to specific layers for visibility control.
Scaling factors: Use dimension scaling for drawings that will be printed at different scales.
- Trailing zeros: Suppress unnecessary trailing zeros for cleaner appearance.
Standard settings: Use "Standard" button to restore factory settings by IGEMS. If you do some changes and then click on Save as default, then the settings will be saved. Open default will use your last saved default.