it seems like in the past whenever i made either artistic text or paragraph text color default, that was reflected in the control Text using the Dimension tool.
but no matter what changes i make in X6, it remains a chalky blue.
any idears? F8 time?
-thanks, -handsome john
Hi,
You can change default color for dimension text from Object Styles docker. Go to Tools - Object Styles (Ctrl+F5). Under Default Object Properties, select Dimension. Change the properties as required to what you want to setup as defaults. See red highlights in attached.
yay! this method worked!
i was doing it by having nothing selected, clicking on a pallette color, and prompting that to be the default color for Dimension in the Change Document Defaults window that pops up. (then i would save those settings as default from Tools)
my methos should have worked-- perhaps a bug?
thank you for your help!
-peace, -john
rimshotgraphix said:my methods should have worked-- perhaps a bug?
Not really a bug, the problem is that the dimension has 4 colors:
The palette affects the fill and outline of the dimension, not the text of the dimension.
Hi Pratik,
I've done this and (hopefully) saved it for all new drawings but is there a way to 'retro fit' this default dimension color to existing documents? I have a lot of technical drawings that I regularly just edit a little for different projects so they are not new drawings. Thanks
Windspeed said:I've done this and (hopefully) saved it for all new drawings but is there a way to 'retro fit' this default dimension color to existing documents?
It is possible to import Styles - including document default properties - into existing documents.
That would not change dimensions or other objects already existing in a document, but those imported default properties would be used when creating new dimensions in the document.
It is possible to reformat existing dimensions by applying Style Sets, which can be included in a template, and can also be imported into existing documents. That allows one to dial in all of the properties to get the formatting "just right" for a particular style of dimension, and then be able to apply those properties easily in the future.
That's especially useful if one needs to use dimensions in drawings, and sometimes works using different scales. One can have different style sets that produce the right formatting at the different scales.