Modifying Dimensions
After you have created your dimension styles and created a variety of dimensions in your drawing, eventually you may need to modify the dimensions. Some reasons you might need to modify existing dimensions include the following:
The drawing plot scale changes.
You make a change to dimensioned geometry.
You want to override the AutoCAD measurement for the dimension.
You want to re-position the dimension text for the purpose of clarity.
You want to change the settings for some elements of a dimension without having to re-create the dimension.
The sections that follow discuss the various techniques for modifying existing dimensions.
Note
The rest of this chapter assumes that Associative Dimensioning is turned on. This is controlled ...
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