#DIMSTYLES
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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
Richard,
First of all, how 'bout NOT SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS IN
YOUR MESSAGE…please. |-)
As per your question about the dimension Styles, nope, when you
change the text style, the dimesion will use the new style, irregardless or
what is "defined" by the dimension style. I'm not sure whether this is
simply an oversight or a glitch. Maybe they'll get it right in R12…
Bill
Bill – I think your observation could be clarified a bit.
When you redefine a text style, existing text that references that style is
not redefined to reflect the new style's attributes, with the exception of
the font. That's how it works for all text, and that's how it was designed.
In this case, styles are used as creation templates, and not all attributes
of a text style remain associative with styles current attributes (e.g, the
width factor, slant, and non-zero height).
-TonyT.
Bill,
I had no intention of Shouting at you. This was the first time I had to ask
a question with E-mail. I wasn't upset, or out of joint about the matter.
In the future I will type messages (as this one) with upper and lower case.
I'll probably ask more questions as time goes on. Also you mention about
Release 12. I'll be the one millionth customer and ask when will it be
coming out? I'll talk to you later Bill.
Richard Knode