topic Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text in AutoCAD Forum

AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

cslatteryAXGRE — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:23:54 GMT

It would be nice to have an option to remove the dash from dimension text.

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

imadHabash — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:03:40 GMT

Hi,

would you please explain more about the " dash " word. can you show us an image?

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

cadffm — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:47:13 GMT

What dash?

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

paullimapa — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:44:23 GMT

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

pendean — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:26:18 GMT

@cslatteryAXGRE wrote:
It would be nice to have an option to remove the dash from dimension text.

Which dash are you wanting to remove? Where? and if I may ask, why?

And what region of the world do you work in (the recipient of your DWG files output) please?

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

cslatteryAXGRE — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:09:56 GMT

Yes, that dash.

Re: AutoCad idea - Option to remove the dash from the dimension text

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 02:06:40 GMT

You could define a .shx font that simply draws nothing for the hyphen character. Assign that font to a Text Style, and assign that Style to a Dimension Style. [Presumably you would not use the font for any other purpose, because it would also draw nothing for hyphens in other contexts.]

Similar to what you will find >here<, with variants in other Messages in the same Topic. They are font definitions which draw nothing for the apostrophe [single-quote] and double-quote characters, at someone's request to not have the feet or inches marks in Dimension text [try it!].

But it has to be a .shx font, not a .ttf font, because the former can be edited that way with tools available in AutoCAD. The same kind of thing could be done with the hyphen instead being what is defined to draw nothing.