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The angle brackets represent the primary units, and the square brackets rep-
resent the alternate units. The \X separates text above the dimension line
from text below the dimension line. The \P is a paragraph break.
The resulting text appears as follows:
To control the text style in dimensions
1 From the Dimension menu, choose Style.
2 In the Dimension Style Manager, select the style you wish to change and
choose Modify.
3 In the Modify Dimension Style dialog box, Text tab, under Text Appear-
ance, select a text style.
4 If the current text style does not have a fixed height, enter the height of
dimension text in the Text Height box.
5 Under Tolerances, enter a height for tolerance values in the Scaling for
Height box.
6 In the Offset from Dim Line box, enter a value for the gap around base
dimension text.
7 Select a color from the Text Color box.
8 Choose OK to exit.
9 Choose Close to exit the Dimension Style Manager.
Dimension or Styles toolbar
Command line
DIMSTYLE
Control Dimension Values
The numeric values displayed in dimensions can appear in several formats
and you can control how numeric distances are represented.
Control the Display of Dimension Units
The settings for primary units control the display of the dimension values,
including the unit format, the numeric precision, and the decimal separator
style. For example, you can enter the diameter symbol as a prefix, as shown
in the illustration. Any prefix you specify replaces the prefixes normally used
for diameter and radius dimensions (Ø and R, respectively).