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