You could presumably define two Dimension Styles, and build custom Dimension commands that check on the measured dimension after drawing one, and depending on that result, possibly change the Dimension Style. But then if you Stretch things, it would not change the Style if something got Stretched across that threshold in either direction. A Reactor, maybe?
Or a routine could be defined, which you would run before issuing drawings, to just find all Dimensions for you and assign Styles to them depending on their measured dimensions. Doing it en masse like that has the drawback that some will get their text kicked outboard of their extension lines when it was inside before, or vice versa, so you should check for such effects. But it could be done with one command, instead of needing to make custom definitions separately of DIMLINEAR, DIMROTATED, DIMALIGNED, etc.
@RIPBillyMays wrote:
What I want is a mix of Architectural and Fractional primary units. When the dimension is less than 2'-0", I want it to use fractional formatting. 23 15/16" for example, with a " mark as a suffix. When the dimension is 2'-0" or more, I want it to be in Architectural formatting.
AutoCAD's built-in cutoff is 1'-0", which if you think about it, makes more sense than a 2'-0" cutoff: do you really want to reinvent the wheel, aka go completely custom?
MECH have have more tools and options in those AM dim tools, but this is not the forum for that specialized version.
