From: wisty
Am I missing something obvious - not unusual!
When dimensioning objects to produce a drawing, I can go into Options and create a number of presets in addition to the default. However when I create a dimension on the drawing itself there seems to be no way of selecting a particular preset set of properties other than the one selected in Options.
The object properties dialogue for a dimension gives me the option of selecting a different style, but that only seems related to colour.
What I would like to create is a range of dimension presets ( arrow positions, text positions etc), and apply them at the point of creating the dimension.
If the style option could be replaced with a choice of presets choice in the object properties that would be ideal.
Or as I said, am I missing something!!!
From: Michael Gibson
Hi wisty,
re:
> When dimensioning objects to produce a drawing, I can go into Options and create a number of presets
> in addition to the default. However when I create a dimension on the drawing itself there seems to be no
> way of selecting a particular preset set of properties other than the one selected in Options.
When you create a dimension, there is a "Preset" dropdown option in the command options area.
You can click on it to choose which preset will be used for the new dimension. (see image below)
One thing to note is that the presets other than "Default" are stored in .3dm files. To have them show up in a new file you can either set a .3dm file with the presets saved in it as the template file under Options > General > Template file, or you can import them into the current file using Options > Dimensions > Import.
- Michael
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DimPreset.png
From: Michael Gibson
Also the Text and Leader commands show a dialog so there's more room to enter text. For these commands the Preset option is in the dialog instead.
- Michael
From: wisty
Thanks Michael, I knew I was missing something!!
