You can suppress the display of leading and trailing zeros in dimension units. You can also suppress the display of feet and inches when their values are zero. Zero Suppression options are provided on the Primary Units, Alternate Units, and Tolerances tabs of the New, Modify, or Override Dimension Style dialog boxes.
Suppressing Zeros in Dimension Units
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Adding Tolerances to Dimensions
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Tolerances show the range within which a dimension can vary. You can add tolerances as dimension text, using the options on the Tolerances tab to format them. These tolerances differ from geometric tolerances, which are displayed in feature control frames. For information about geometric tolerances, see “Adding Geometric Tolerances.”
Adding Alternate Dimension Units
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Alternate dimension units communicate the dimension in an additional measurement system. They commonly display the metric equivalent for imperial dimensions, or the imperial version for metric dimensions. Alternate dimension units are displayed in square brackets [ ] next to the primary units in the dimension text. You use the Alternate Units tab in the New Dimension Style dialog box to format alternate dimension units.
Formatting Primary Dimension Units
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AutoCAD provides many ways to format dimension units. You can set the unit type, precision, fraction format, and decimal format. You can also add prefixes and suffixes. For example, you can add a diameter symbol as a prefix to a measurement or add a unit abbreviation, such as mm, as a suffix. You set the format for primary dimension units on the Primary Units tab in the New Dimension Style dialog box.
Under Linear Dimensions, you can set the format for linear, aligned, radius, diameter, ordinate, and nonangular baseline and continued dimensions. Continue reading →
Fitting Dimension Text and Arrowheads
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When you create a dimension, many factors determine how AutoCAD positions dimension text and arrowheads. If possible, AutoCAD automatically places both between the extension lines. However, if space is not sufficient to do this, AutoCAD follows rules set on the Fit tab of the New Dimension Style dialog box.