-DIMSTYLE (Command)

At the Command prompt, creates and modifies dimension styles.

You can save or restore dimensioning system variables to a selected dimension style.

List of Prompts

The following prompts are displayed.

Annotative

Creates an annotative dimension style.

Create annotative dimension style?

Specifies whether the dimension style you create are annotative. When dimensions are annotative, the process of scaling annotation objects is automated.

Name for new dimension style

Specifies a style name or enter ? to display a list of existing style names.

That name is already in use, redefine it?

Displayed if the name you entered is already in use.

If you enter y, associative dimensions that use the redefined dimension style are regenerated.

To display the differences between the dimension style name you want to save and the current style, enter a tilde (~) followed by the style name. Only settings that differ are displayed, with the current setting in the first column, and the setting of the compared style in the second column.

Save

Saves the current settings of dimensioning system variables to a dimension style. The new dimension style becomes the current one.

• Name for new dimension style.
• The name is already in use, redefine it?

Restore

Restores dimensioning system variable settings to those of a selected dimension style.

Dimension style name

Makes the dimension style you enter the current dimension style.

To display the differences between the dimension style name you want to restore and the current style, enter a tilde (~) followed by the style name at the Enter Dimension Style Name prompt. Only settings that differ are displayed, with the current setting in the first column, and the setting of the compared style in the second column. After the differences are displayed, the previous prompt returns.

?

Lists the named dimension styles in the current drawing.

Select dimension

Makes the dimension style of the selected object the current dimension style.

Status

Displays the current values of all dimension system variables in the drawing.

Variables

Lists the dimension system variable settings of a dimension style or selected dimensions without modifying the current settings.

Name

Lists the settings of dimension system variables for the dimension style name you enter.

To display the differences between a particular dimension style and the current style, enter a tilde (~) followed by the style name at the Enter Dimension Style Name prompt. Only settings that differ are displayed, with the current setting in the first column, and the setting of the compared style in the second column.

?

Lists the named dimension styles in the current drawing.

Select Dimension

Lists the dimension style and any dimension overrides for the dimension object you select.

Apply

Applies the current dimensioning system variable settings to selected dimension objects, permanently overriding any existing dimension styles applied to these objects.

The dimension line spacing between existing baseline dimensions is not updated (see the DIMDLI system variable). Dimension text variable settings do not update existing leader text.