Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings
Guide to Generating Drawings

Change Dimension

Use it!

Used to change a dimension element to the active dimension attributes, which can be set as follows:

To change a dimension to the active dimension attributes
  1. Select the dimension.

  2. Click the Change Dimension tool.

  3. Accept the changes.

Alternative Method — To change a dimension to the active dimension attributes
  1. Click the Change Dimension tool.

  2. Identify the dimension.

  3. Accept the changes.

Alternative Method — To change a dimension by changing the dimension style
  1. Click the Change Dimension tool.

  2. Select the dimension.

  3. In the Change Dimension tool settings, use the option menu to choose a different dimension style.

  4. Accept the changes.

To change only some of a dimension's attributes
  1. Select the dimension element(s).

  2. In the Change Attributes tool box, select the Match All Element Settings (SmartMatch) tool.

  3. Adjust the dimension settings as desired.

  4. Use the Change Dimension tool to apply the changed settings to the selected dimension element(s).

Key-in: CHANGE DIMENSION

The active dimension attributes can be set to match a dimension element with the Match All Element Settings tool in the Change Attributes tool box.

If you use the Change Dimension tool to change a dimension element, more settings may be changed than you expect. If you are not sure how different the current dimension settings are from the settings at the time the dimension element was placed, use the following procedure, To change only some of a dimension's attributes.