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#DIMSTYLES

    19-Feb-92 20:05:08
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Fm: Richard D Knode 70400,1727
To: DON STRIMBU 72377,1544
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET DIMENSION STYLES TO LOCK IN A PARTICULAR TEXT STYLE ? WHENEVER I EXPLODE A BLOCK THAT CONTAINS A DIMENSION STYLE THE DIMTXT ALWAYS CHANGES TO THE CURRENT TEXT STYLE TEXT HEIGHT SETTING. PAGE 361 OF THE AUTOCAD MANUAL SAYS THAT A DIMENSION STYLE IS A "NAMED GROUP OF SETTINGS FOR EACH DIMENSION VARIABLE"! PAGE 393 OF THE AUTOCAD MANUAL SAYS THAT DIMTXT SPECIFIES THE HEIGHT OF THE DIMENSIONS TEXT, UNLESS THE CURRENT TEXT STYLE HAS A FIXED HEIGHT. DO I HAVE TO SWITCH TO A TEXT STYLE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A FIXED HEIGHT BEFORE I EXPLODE A BLOCK CONTAINING DIMENSIONS ? I AM USING AUTOCAD VERSION 11 AT WORK ON A NETWORK SYSTEM (NFS) A COMPINATION OF DOS AND SUN STATIONS (UNIX). DOES THIS EFFECT THE TEXT STYLES IN ANY WAY ? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME RICHARD KNODE