My CAD noob question!

Hi,

I'm just starting autocad and I'm finding it an easy program to use in many ways. But, of course I'm having problems solving stupid little problems here and there because I haven't learned yet. We all need to learn sometime.

Here's my problem, in the attached jpg there are two dimension styles. The default one above and the one I need to match on the left. Can anyone tell me how to match the style of the simpler dims on the left?

Thanks, Jeremy

Try Matchprop

Try Matchprop

Thanks todouble22

The only thing I could get Matchprop to do is move other object to my DIM layer. It would not select the object to copy the properties to if it was another dimension.

Any other ideas?

I think those Dims I am trying to match are actually Leaders and not Dims.

I'll just use Leaders for now.

By the way I'm finding matchprop very useful.

thanks!

The dimensions on the left are ordinate dimensions. (dimordinate command)

The dimensions on top are are linear dimensions (dimlinear command)

You can't convert one to the other. You need to use the dimordinate command.

By the way I'm finding matchprop very useful.

 

thanks!

cool glad it was somewhat useful.. it def comes in handy. i'm pretty sure match prop works on dimensions. if they are leaders you can just click one and see if it is or not. you can copy the leaders or the dimesions from place to place and just use the grips to place them where you want. cheers

The dimensions on the left are ordinate dimensions. (dimordinate command)

The dimensions on top are are linear dimensions (dimlinear command)

 

You can't convert one to the other. You need to use the dimordinate command.

Thanks everyone! I've now learned how to the ordinate dimensions.