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3. Click the New button to create a new dimension style that's a copy of the existing
style.
The Create New Dimension Style dialog box appears.
4. Enter a New Style Name and select or deselect the Annotative check box. Click
Continue.
Select the Annotative check box to create an annotative dimension style, or
deselect it for a non-annotative style. Refer to Chapter 13 for more about annotative
objects.
The New Dimension Style dialog box appears. (This dialog box is virtually identical
to the Modify Dimension Style dialog box shown in Figure 14-5 in the following sec-
tion.)
5. Modify dimension settings on any of the seven tabs in the New Dimension Style
dialog box.
See the descriptions of these settings in the next section of this chapter.
6. Click OK to close the New Dimension Style dialog box.
The Dimension Style Manager dialog box reappears.
7. Click Close.
The Dimension Style Manager dialog box closes, and your new dimension style be-
comes the current dimension style that AutoCAD uses for future dimensions in this
drawing.
8. Draw some dimensions to test your new dimension style.
Avoid changing existing dimension styles that you didn't create unless you
know for sure what they're used for. When you change a dimension style setting,
all
dimensions that use that style change to reflect the revised setting. Thus, one
small dimension variable setting change can affect a large number of existing di-
mensions! To play it safe, instead of modifying an existing dimension style, create
a new style by copying the existing one and modifying the new one.
A further variation on the already convoluted dimension styles picture is that
you can create dimension
substyles
(also called
style families
) — variations of a
main style that affect only a particular type of dimension, such as radial or angu-
lar. If you open the Dimension Style Manager dialog box and see names of dimen-
