Someone else brought this up in the 2004 group but didn't get an answer. There used to be a way to dimension an arc length. You could cycle between degrees and length by pressing space. Why this was changed, I don't know. There is a setting in the dimension style to have it do length or angle but that seems stupid as you would need to setup a dimension style for each. I found a key-in command that does exactly what I'm looking for but I haven't been able to find the button to do it. DIMENSION ARC SIZE
Anyone have an answer?
Hi Kirk,
If you have not already done so:
Define the needed dimension styles (and textstyles) once and make MS_DGNLIBLIST point to that file, so that the styles are available in any file that you open from then on.
Best regards,
Henk
DimStyles are not hooked to a level. I do not think(or understand) why you would create substyles. Create a file TextAndDimesion.dgnlib in your projects /dgnlib folder and import your Dimstyles there (and the textstyles) then you can use them in all your files immediately. You swithch Styles and Levels as you go. If you use that a lot you should look into "Element Templates" define any combination there and then create Tools/Tasks to switch everything requied with one click. Regards, Gerd
Gerd Dimension styles do not have to be hooked to a level but under the Advance option there is a place where you can designate which level you want a dimension style placed on. This is my preferred work flow since my dimensions are design to correlate with certain data.
Kirk
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thanks Henk
I have all my dimensions and text styles in a dgnlib file
To switch to lengths or angle use alternatively the keyins: "dimstyleset angle units length" or "dimstyleset angle units angle". Would you need to switch that often? Do you think you need to have substyles or just to create buttons for that? I came up with element templates as I thought they may be helpful here as they help to define standards AND allow to use the Utilies>Standards Checker as elements "remember" which template they were created from. (They yet do not help for switching angle/length though). Gerd