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550 | Chapter 20 Dimensions and Tolerances
3 In the Override Current Style dialog box, enter the style overrides, and
then choose OK.
AutoCAD displays <style overrides> below the dimension style name.
After you create dimension style overrides, you can continue to modify
dimension styles, compare them with other dimension styles, or delete or
rename the overrides.
Dimension or Styles toolbar
Command line
DIMSTYLE
Modify Dimension Text
Once you've created a dimension, you can rotate the existing text or replace
it with new text. You can move the text to a new location or back to its home
position, which is the position defined by the current dimension style. In the
following illustration, the home position is above and centered on the
dimension line.
When you rotate or replace dimension text, you specify the change first, for
example, rotating the text to be at an angle. When you move dimension text,
you select a single dimension to move.
You can move dimension text to the left, right, or center along the dimen-
sion line or to any position inside or outside the extension lines. A quick and
simple way to do this is by using grips. If you move text up or down, the
current vertical alignment of the text relative to the dimension line is not
changed, so the dimension and extension lines are modified accordingly.
The following illustration shows the result of moving text down and to the
right. The text remains centered vertically in relation to the dimension line.
dimension text rotated dimension text moved
back to home position