Styling Dimensions
The appearance of dimensions (the size of text and arrows, the length of extension lines, and so on) is controlled by dimension styles. Every drawing comes with a Standard dimension style, which of course is the current style as there is only one by default. When you have more than one dimension style, you must choose which one is current. New dimension objects are assigned the current dimension style, in much the same way that objects and layers or text and text styles work.
You can customize dimension styles and even create substyles to control the way different types of dimensions appear according to your personal preferences or to adhere to a corporate or industry standard established for dimensions. For example, if you ...
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