Dim styles

[Anonymous]

I had my drawing all annotated and dimensioned. I made some changes and now new dimensions are huge. I cannot figure out how to get them back to a reasonable size.  I believe I have recreated all the previous settings.  I am in autocad 2020

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Turn it on so you can see it then change your annotative scale to what you intend to use

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Turn what on? So I can what?

[Anonymous]

If I change the annotative scale to something super small like 1/128 it is still huge, the text is like 15’ Long 

[pendean]

Annotation Scale is turned off in your screenshot, it needs to be turned on.

If that did not help, then your DIMSTYLE is not annotative, of the test STYLE it uses is not or that text size is wrong or has a manual size override.

You have some digging to do.

[scot-65]

If you are not using annotative dimensions, there are a few settings
that require a closer look.

Is your text style (command STYLE) set to a height greater than zero (0)?
If so, then assign a text style to the dimension variable DIMTXSTY that
has a more reasonable text height.

It looks as if your tick marks are of correct size.

Look at variable DIMTXT.
The value is a relationship of the variables TEXTSIZE and DIMSCALE.

For example: We use a text height of 5 inches and a dimension scale of 48.
DIMTXT = 5 divided by 48.

Once set, command -DIMSTYLE "Apply" and select the existing dimensions.
[note the hyphen "-" in front of the command name]

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