Dimension Style Manager

Dimension Style Manager

Main menu: Format – Dimension Styles….

Main menu: Dimensions – Dimension Styles….

Ribbon: Home – Annotation – Dimension Style Manager.

Toolbar: Settings – Dimension Style Manager.

Command line: DIMSTYLE.

The software defaults to a government industry standard dimension style.

Dimension styles allow you to control the appearance of dimensions and quickly format them.

Dialog box composition

The inscription “Current style: …” – information about the current dimension style, which is used when applying dimensions.

“Styles” list – a list of all dimension styles in the document.

The “Preview of: …” window is a graphical representation of the style selected in the “Styles” list.

Buttons:

• Set current – sets the selected dimension style current.

• New… – opens a dialogue “Creating style”.

• Modify… – change the parameters of the style selected in the list. Opens dialog “Modify dimension style”.

• Override… – change the parameters of the current dimension style. Opens dialog “Modify dimension style”.

• Compare… – compare two dimension styles, or view a list of all the properties of a style. The comparison results can be copied to the clipboard. Opens dialog “Comparing Dimension Styles”.

• Delete… – deletes the selected dimension style.

Restoring the Dimension Style

Command line: SPSETGOST, SETGOST.

This command is necessary to create (restore) the standard dimensional style of the environment nanoCAD Construction .

Dimension style settings are stored within drawing files. If the file was not created in nanoCAD Construction , then it may not have the required dimension style for correct work in the nanoCAD Construction environment.