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The software resolves dimension units for a particular drawing from the active dimension formatting in either the drawing template (for volume and by query drawing types) or the drawing itself (for composed drawings). The active dimension formatting is a combination of the settings in the active dimension style plus any dimension style overrides that may be set.

You can determine the active style by editing the drawing or the drawing template in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor, selecting one of the placement dimension commands, and checking the style that displays on the resulting ribbon bar. You can view the overrides to the active dimension in the drawing template by selecting Format > Dimension in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

The Imperial border templates have ANSI as the active dimension style with no overrides set. The Metric border templates have DIN as the active dimension style with no overrides set.

You can create and maintain dimension styles in SmartSketch Drawing Editor.

  1. In the SmartSketch Drawing Editor, select Format > Style to open the Style dialog.

  2. Click Modify to open the Modify Dimension Style dialog.

  3. Modify the appearance of the dimension style as needed, and click OK.

  4. On the Style dialog, you can either save dimension styles with the files being edited or reference them from other files. You can reference files by selecting Resources.

  • The reference files, also called resource files, can be any file with an .igr or .sha extension. While referenced dimension styles are available for dimension placement, they cannot be edited. Therefore, the Style dialog only displays dimension styles that are saved locally to the file.

  • In cases where a local dimension style has the same name as a referenced dimension style, the software always uses the local style when placing dimensions. Currently, you cannot override local dimension styles with the same name as a referenced dimension style of the same name. Local dimension styles can be renamed so that the referenced dimension style can be used to place dimensions. Local dimension styles are renamed on the Modify Dimension Style dialog.

The delivered Styles.sha file contains several example dimension styles. This file is located in the Symbols share in the \Drawings\Catalog\Templates folder. All drawings created in the Drawings and Reports task reference the Styles.sha file.

After updating the drawings, the Styles.sha file on the Symbols share is the only file referenced into the drawings. This is true for all orthographic drawings. Any other files previously referenced before the update need to be referenced to the drawing again.

All drawings and drawing templates must have at least one dimension style saved within them. Therefore, if only one dimension style is saved with a file, you cannot delete it. Also, you cannot delete any style from a drawing or drawing template if they are currently used by dimensions in a drawing.

Dimension styles can be added to the list of saved or local styles in a drawing or drawing template in one of two ways:

  • Create a new dimension style from the Style dialog using the New... command.

  • Place a dimension in a drawing or drawing template using a reference dimension style. This method copies the referenced dimension style into the drawing or drawing template.

  • We recommend that you maintain a separate set of border templates for each dimension style used for drawings. The border templates within a particular set should have the same active dimension style with the same style settings.

  • The <dimensionStyleSettings> setting in the dimension templates is not used by the software at this time. However, when creating drawings, we recommend that the active dimension style in the selected border template have the same name as the <dimensionStyleSettings> setting in the dimension template to avoid problems in future software releases. Rename any customized border templates. Do not use the delivered border template name for customized border templates.

  • We recommend that you maintain a complete set of your dimension styles in a renamed version of the Styles.sha file.