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Dimension: Having different colors for the Dimension and the Tolerance

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Mettler Roland

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Oct 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/22/98
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As many others, (I suppose), I am using the color to control the
thickness when plotting. For dimensions, I would like to have different
colors for the dimension text and the tolerances. Does anybody know how
this can be done (other than exploding the dimension or just adding the
tolerance as a single text?)

Roland

Dennis Shinn

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Oct 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/23/98
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Greetings

Mettler Roland <mr...@bluewin.ch> posted the following

In the ddim dialog (R14 in use here) you have the option of setting the
different dmension objects to different colors. I don't think you can
change or specify different colors for parts of the dimension text.


Cliff W. Estes

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Oct 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/23/98
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Righto. Don't forget to dim/update after changing the vars.

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Ian A. White

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Oct 25, 1998, 2:00:00 AM10/25/98
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:18:59 +0100, Mettler Roland <mr...@bluewin.ch>
wrote:

> As many others, (I suppose), I am using the color to control the
> thickness when plotting. For dimensions, I would like to have different
> colors for the dimension text and the tolerances. Does anybody know how
> this can be done (other than exploding the dimension or just adding the
> tolerance as a single text?)

For the standard allowable tolerance text size factor of 70% of normal
text size, this should not be a problem. If you still want to use
another colour, the tolerance would have to have been entered as a
dimension text modifier. You would have to edit the text and
highlight the tolerance portion and change its colour. With a
deviation tolerance, you can still retain the default value of the
dimension. For a Limits tolerance you would have to highlight the
default value of <> and change its colour.


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