Saving and deleting settings If you customize the settings in the Dimension Standards dialog box, you can save the settings as a custom standard. Press the triangle but- ton at the bottom-left corner of the Dimension Standards dialog box to display a menu for saving and deleting dimension standards. When you save or delete standards, they remain saved or deleted whether you click OK or Cancel to close the Dimension Standards dialog box. To save the settings as a new standard:  Press the triangle but- ton at the bottom-left corner of the Dimension Standards dialog box. In the pop-up menu, choose “Save settings as.” Type a name for the custom standard in the dialog box that appears. Click OK. The new standard will appear in the Current Standard pop-up menu. To delete a custom standard:  Press the triangle button at the bottom-left corner of the Dimension Standards dialog box. In the Dimension Standards settings The settings in the Dimension Standards dialog box specify the length and position of vari- ous elements of dimension objects, based on industry standards. Current standard. Choose from five standard measure- ment systems: ANSI (American National Standards Institute) DIN (Deutches Institut für Nor- mung), BS-380 (British Stan- dards Institute), ISO (Interna- tional Organization for Standardization), and JIS (Jap- anese Industrial Standard). Settings you create also appear in this pop-up menu. Units. Choose the measure- ment units you want to use for all settings in the dialog box. A    Extension. Set the length of the witness lines’ extensions and the center line extension. B    Gap. Set the size of the gap between the witness lines and measurement points on ob- jects; the gap between the cen- ter extension and center point mark; and the gap between the dimension text and dimension arrows. C    Length. Set the length of the arrow lines (applies only when arrows are outside the witness lines); the length of cen- ter extension lines’ leader char- acters; and the length of the center extension line. D    Tolerance scale. The size of tolerance text and space be- tween tolerance text, as a per- centage of the dimension text size and spacing. A B C D
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