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    <title>tema Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the &amp;quot;Ø&amp;quot; in the challenge exercise? en AutoCAD for Mac Forum</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Ok, I get it now. Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>alastair_leith</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-09-17T23:26:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12228625#M46758</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm referring to the Autodesk tutorial on this &lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/certification/learn/course/autocad-annotating-dimensioning-professional/Opn2bB870RfwwnWu2z341" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;webpage (link).&lt;/A&gt; I've attached the two .dwg files, starting file and finished file, my version and the PDF instructions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2023-09-09 at 11.43.40 am.png" style="width: 467px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264177i521A59E02AA929C5/image-dimensions/467x776?v=v2" width="467" height="776" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-09-09 at 11.43.40 am.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-09 at 11.43.40 am.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I understand how to get the "Ø" symbol come up when I select a circle it happens automatically. Or I can use the Diameter option in the DIMS command. But in this instance the drawing is indicating diameters of bore holes on a section drawing, so they shown as rectangular shapes, no circle to prompt Autocad into using the Diameter option for the Mtext.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I used a work around, creating a new style based on standard and putting the 'Ø' char as a prefix on all dimensions. But in the finished file they didn't do that. How did they do it?!&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;———————&lt;BR /&gt;Also I had a second issue trying to make the workaround style for angles to remove the incorrect inches unit symbol (") suffix from the dimension style (this is something that wasn't required, the instructors ignored this as an oversight i expect). I'll post a separate thread on that and link back to it here later.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="fixed" style="width: 378px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264180i0B678B3D95E469EA/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-09-09 at 11.47.55 am.png" alt="fixed" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;fixed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="wrong unit!" style="width: 289px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264183i38921401E0E33685/image-dimensions/289x203?v=v2" width="289" height="203" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-09-09 at 11.47.48 am.png" alt="wrong unit!" /&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();"&gt;wrong unit!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:50:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12228625#M46758</guid>
      <dc:creator>alastair_leith</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-09T01:50:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12228817#M46760</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14260111"&gt;@alastair_leith&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yes, you can create additional Dim Style for such Lind of dimensions, but in the "finished" version they used dimension text override method:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Select the dimension in "finished" version of the drawing and look at the Properties Palette:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-09-09_09-53-51.png" style="width: 967px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264197iC03BA4AE27BD6BEE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2023-09-09_09-53-51.png" alt="2023-09-09_09-53-51.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The dim text is: %%C&amp;lt;&amp;gt; - this means that diameter symbol - &lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;%%C&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; - added to the default text - &lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can remove &lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt; from the angular dimension also by editing properties of the individual dimension (remove " from the prefix):&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-09-09_10-03-20.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264198i56AC191DACC310EA/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2023-09-09_10-03-20.png" alt="2023-09-09_10-03-20.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:05:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12228817#M46760</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-09T07:05:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12231880#M46766</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks &lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/665765"&gt;@maxim_k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I may as well post my other issue in this thread.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I tried to make an Dim (sub) Style based on the Standard DIM style to do all angle dimensions (to remove the inches unit) but when I set "use for" to "Angular Dimensions", perplexingly, it wont let me edit any of the parameters for primary units other . Same for Radius and Diameter sub-styles. Seems very counter intuitive to my intuition!&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.35.45 pm.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264651i8060B7354D25869D/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.35.45 pm.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.35.45 pm.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;  &lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.37.54 pm.png" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264650i5B937D97D966D8CF/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.37.54 pm.png" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-11 at 10.37.54 pm.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:42:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12231880#M46766</guid>
      <dc:creator>alastair_leith</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-11T12:42:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232201#M46772</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14260111"&gt;@alastair_leith&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can use &lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-61AD7FCE-E7C5-401E-BAA4-3059F914FAD9" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;command line version of DIMSTYLE&lt;/A&gt; command to create separate sub-style for angular dimensions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ensure that current dim style is STANDARD.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Start with changing &lt;A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-79CCF9B1-BE33-4158-891C-50E4BF795D8E" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;DIMPOST&lt;/A&gt; System Variable to none - type point when AutoCAD prompts for DIMPOST value:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command: DIMPOST&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Enter new value for DIMPOST, or . for none &amp;lt;"""&amp;gt;: &lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now use command line version of DIMSTYLE command (with dash before command name) to save new dim style with special name "Standard$2":&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command: -DIMSTYLE&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Current dimension style: Standard Annotative: No&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Current dimension overrides:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;DIMPOST&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Enter a dimension style option&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;[ANnotative/Save/Restore/STatus/Variables/Apply/?] &amp;lt;Restore&amp;gt;: S&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Enter name for new dimension style or [?]: &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;Standard$2&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now use&amp;nbsp;command line version of DIMSTYLE command again to restore Standard dim style:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command: -DIMSTYLE&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Current dimension style: Standard Annotative: No&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Current dimension overrides:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;DIMPOST&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Enter a dimension style option&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;[ANnotative/Save/Restore/STatus/Variables/Apply/?] &amp;lt;Restore&amp;gt;: &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;R&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Enter a dimension style name, [?] or &amp;lt;select dimension&amp;gt;: &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color="#FF0000"&gt;Standard&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Current dimension style: Standard Annotative: No&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;Command:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now use dialog based version of DIMSTYLE command to see the changes, you should see:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-09-11_17-39-43.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1264712i861A297EEFB584A0/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2023-09-11_17-39-43.png" alt="2023-09-11_17-39-43.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:40:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232201#M46772</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-11T14:40:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232301#M46775</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks &lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/665765"&gt;@maxim_k&lt;/a&gt; . is your solution a work around to a bug in the Dialogue version of DIMSTYLES? Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through when the GUI should be able to do it.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Should I log a bug about this on the Autodesk Community Council?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:22:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232301#M46775</guid>
      <dc:creator>alastair_leith</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-11T15:22:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232827#M46778</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14260111"&gt;@alastair_leith&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks &lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/665765"&gt;@maxim_k&lt;/a&gt; . is your solution a work around to a bug in the Dialogue version of DIMSTYLES? Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through when the GUI should be able to do it.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Should I log a bug about this on the Autodesk Community Council?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is not a bug, but a feature.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This has always been the case in AutoCAD.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:11:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-11T19:11:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232890#M46779</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;If you need different settings for different type of dimensions in one "master" dim style, you need create base style, then create individual sub-styles from it, then edit each of sub-styles.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In your case you can at first remove " suffix from the "Standard" dim style, then create Linear and Angular sub-styles, then edit Linear sub-style and add suffix to it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12232890#M46779</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-11T19:37:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Diameter dimensioning in the Certification training tutorial… how did they automate the "Ø" in the challenge exercise?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12246959#M46833</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Ok, I get it now. Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/diameter-dimensioning-in-the-certification-training-tutorial-how/m-p/12246959#M46833</guid>
      <dc:creator>alastair_leith</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-17T23:26:30Z</dc:date>
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