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    hey guys how do you grab all dimensions in a drawing and change the ext line color to white and the text color to yellow for every dimension within lisp??

    This is because we are editing a whole heap of standard details.

    Also we are scaling down from millimeters to meters.

    How can i scale everything down by 0.001 and edit the dim scale overall for each dimension and leader within a drawing to be 1000 times smaller than what it is at the moment
    eg if the current dimscale overall of a single dimension or leader is 25 how can i make it 0.25

    I need to do this for each single dimension and leader with a drawing.

    Any healp as you can see will be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you
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    have you ever used DIM UPDATE?
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    No i haven't even heard of it..
    Even asked about it here - no one knows..

    Its probably a simple command - can you talk me through it please

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    Strix, im asking and quetion similar to what russell at
    "Convert Dim style from scale 1000 to 1 "
    if i use DIM UPDATE i cannot maintain the text and arrow style for each Dim and the size of each style in scale 1000 to 1; is that i miss out any thing?

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    sorry guys, I can't check the exact procedure, but you need to set the DIM STYLE parameters to those you require, then DIM UPDATE
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