Lesson 15: Customizing Dimensions

Overview

Following this lesson, you will:

• Know how to create and use Dimension Styles

• Know how to remove unused Dimension Styles: The Purge Command

Every design industry has its own preferences about such things as units, dimension arrows, text sizes, tolerances, and so forth. If all industries had to accept decimal dimensions (with four decimal places), AutoCAD would probably lose its business fairly quickly “ especially from architectural and petrochemical designers who rely on the ever-present feet and inches of architectural drafting. Indeed, even metric users might wash their hands of taking millimeters to four decimal places.

In this lesson, we'll look at changing the way AutoCAD creates dimensions to fit different industrial standards.