dim overrides

[Anonymous]

is there a way to save the dim overrides from one dwg to another

[john.vellek]

HI @Anonymous,

I see that you are visiting as a new member. Welcome to the Autodesk Community! 

I would just create a new Dimstyle based on the overrides. Then, you can bring that dimstyle to any other drawing.  Is this what you are trying to do? If not, please give me more detail and perhaps a sample file to look at.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[Anonymous]

standard w overrides is the style
but opening a new dwg I end up with standard with out overrides

[Kent1Cooper]

I agree that more detail would be helpful.  Since every Dimension can have its own overrides [or none] separately from every other one, which one's overrides would you want to save?  I would assume that you mean the current state of overrides in the drawing, rather than those on a particular Dimension.  But there are so many Dimensioning variables that a transfer of all of them would be a tedious thing to set up, so I agree with @john.vellek that simply Saving the current combination to a new Dimension Style would be simpler.  However, you would have to do that in the source drawing before you could import it into another one.

[Anonymous]

right click on the <style overrides> in the style manage and select "SAVE TO CURRENT STYLE"  The current "Standard style" will be updated to include the overrides which can then be imported to other files using design center.  Or click on the <style overrides>, then click on NEW and enter a new name for the style.

Update style Standard (or the NEW style) in your templates and it will always be there

[Anonymous]

how do i import that dim style in newly opened dwgs

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

how do i import that dim style in newly opened dwgs

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With the Design Center [ADC command, or Ctrl+2].  Navigate in that to the source drawing, and pick on it, and Dimstyles is among the things you can bring into the current drawing from it.

[Anonymous]

AS YOU INSESRT A BLOCK

CAN YOU INSERT DIM OVERRIDES IN DWGS THAT DONT HAVE THAT STYLE

INSTEAD OF CHANGING ONE BY ONE TO CREATE IT

[Anonymous]

TEMPLATES
HOW TO GET THERE
I FOUND THE ADC
BUT STILL CANT GET THE STANDARD W/OVERRIDES TO SAVE

[Anonymous]

Did you RIGHT-CLICK on the <style overrides> and save it as current??

[Anonymous]

YES
STANDARD W/OVERRIDES IS CURRENT
SWITCHING DWG ENDS UP WITH STANDARD W NO OVERRIDES

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:
YES
STANDARD W/OVERRIDES IS CURRENT
SWITCHING DWG ENDS UP WITH STANDARD W NO OVERRIDES

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You want to Save to a new Style, different from Standard, that has the current settings [which are overrides in relation to the Standard Style] as part of its base definition.  Import that, not Standard, into different drawings.

[Anonymous]

CAN I LOAD THAT DIMSTYLE IN ANY DWG
WITHOUT INSERTING THE WHOLE DWG

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:
CAN I LOAD THAT DIMSTYLE IN ANY DWG
WITHOUT INSERTING THE WHOLE DWG

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Yes, with the Design Center.

[Anonymous]

IM STUMPED ON HOW TO DO THAT
IV CREATED A COPY OF STANDARD W OVERRIDES
BUT IF ITS NOT IN A CURRENT DWG
I HAVE TO CHANGE EACH VARIABLE TO CREATE IT
I WANT TO JUST LOAD IT IN ANY DWG I WISH
NOT TAKE ALL THE TIME TO CHANGE EACH

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

I made a quick video that shows how to do this if I am understanding your question.

I open the file with the dimstyle that contains an override. I create a new dimstyle based on the override. I save my drawing and then open my other drawing. I go to Design Center, browse my first drawing and go to DimStyles. I drag in the Dimstyle I created and then I set it current.

Is this what you intend?

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[Anonymous]

I CANT DRAG IN THE DESIGN CENTER

I CAN RIGHT CLICK AND COPY OR ADD DIMSTYLES

WHEN I GO TO THE DWG IN THE DESIGN CENTER THAT DOSNT HAVE THE DIMSTYLE
AND RIGHT CLICK AND ADD DIMSTYLE TO DWG
NOTHING HAPPENS

[user181]

In the dwg with the override style select a dimension you've created with the override and use copy from the ribbon. Open new dwg and use the paste command from the ribbon. The pasted dimension will have all the attributes of the one with overrides.

edit: To better clarify use the COPY TO CLIPBOARD (CTRL+C) in the original drawing and PASTE (CTRL+V) in the new drawing

[Anonymous]

thank you john

our transaction was so helpful

i picked the solution button

email me if there is anything else

where do i go to explain what we did

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

HI @Anonymous,

Creating the new style that incorporated your overrides was simple as described by many in this thread. The next step was to import the newly created style into your file. We did this (after an Audit and purge which found a bunch of errors) by using Design Center. We browsed one of the drawings where the new style resided and then dragged that new style into the drawing area of the screen in the new file. Once we did this we verified that the dimstyle was indeed imported.