Power dimension style problem

[ricci.lowe]

Hello all,

I have recently began using autocad mechanical As a lot of tool on there suit my standards of drawing and my style of drawing, my only problem Is power dimensions, I can't seem to force them to use my chosen standard style (ISO), no matter how much I change the standards in AMoptions. I use the power dimension it creates a temporary style called something like "ISO$0" or "ISO$1" etc.

Is this a common glitch with the tick box or something more sinister? As I would like to be able to edit my dimensions to match my standards.

Thanks in advance!

[michaelsu · Accepted solution]

Hi,

They're not a temporary dimension style but refer to the dimension sub-styles. $X means "sub dimension style", like linear, angular, radius,etc. see snapshot. You can create them by click New in dimension style manager and then select them from Use for list.

If you modify and change the base dimension style, then all sub styles will follow. 

Hope this helps.

[acwtzwegers · Accepted solution]

They are not temporary replacements but something AutoCAD Mechanical does because it hasn't kept up with regular AutoCAD concerning annotative objects, true type fonts layout use and such.

Basically, if you have an annotative dimstyle, it will create a $ version that is not annotative.

What I've done so far is to give users a "dimfix" function that undoes AutoCAD Mechanical's changes (and puts them back to my annotative AM_ISO). Working on a reactor that reacts to the Mechanical reactor so users don't ned to push a button.

If you don't care about annotative scaling, your best option is to remove such customisations from your AM_ISO dimstyle.

[ricci.lowe]

thanks guys, thats magic, got it sorted now.

[ed.gray]

Why do I have to change this every time I open the drawing, even if I have already changed it earlier, closed it and re-opened it. And, even if I have set the dim scale to 1:16, if the annotation scale of the drawing isn't set to 1:16, it will not dimension at the correct scale, and I am not using annotative dimensions.