Hi Brian, documentation for Dimensions is here:
https://moi3d.com/4.0/docs/moi_command_reference8.htm#Dim

Some info for how presets work is in there:

re:
> Would creating a new Preset cause the second Dim Text entry to match the first one?

Creating a new preset doesn't affect any already created dims, the presets control what properties to apply to a newly created dimension object.

re:
> Does the regular old Text command create more or less the same text as the Dim Text?

Well the old Text command under Draw Solid > Text creates text as curve, surface, or solid objects in Moi. You can then use that text in part of a model like use booleans to cut an object with the text.

The Dim > Text creates an annotation text object in MoI. It can't be used as model geometry like you can't boolean with it but it works better as a label.

- Michael

Thank you very much Michael.

I like the looks of the Dim Text as Label. (Annotation object)
I was thinking of creating an array of Plane rectangles, and setting the Style of each, sequentially, according to all of the current Styles, and placing the Style Name as a text Label to the side.
(The Dim Text size will match the size of the Style rectangle.)

I think that I have all of the code bits to do this. (More or less anyway.)

I am up to 72 Styles, which is perhaps a bit too much.
So I need to delete some that are too Yellow, or too similar to others in color.
Maybe I should arrange them according to the main color hues: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Brown, Black, Grey, and White?

- Brian

Hi Michael,

for me it makes no sense to save a dimension-preset in a project file. It is possible to save it as a global preset, so that it is always available without having to open a specific file. It would also be nice if you could simply copy and paste the properties.
Maybe it would be possible to create a template file that contains the presets and is available in each file?

So far it's a bit awkward and rigid.

Hi pixelhouse, yes you can do that with a template file.

Save a .3dm file with the property presets how you want them and then set that .3dm file as the startup template file under Options > General > "Template file".

Then the dimension presets from that file will be there when you start up MoI or do a File > New.

- Michael

Thank you Michael,

thats sounds good! I never have try to work with a startup file.

Jörg