text height and dimension style

[td88]

Has anyone written a lucid explanation of how to set text height for dimensions. When I was originally taught, I believe, the instructor had a poor understanding of the various ways this works, so many of us still don't understand.

 

When you set the text height in dimension style, under the text tab, my understanding is the height can be overridden by the text style selected above but, that's the extent of my understanding. I just opened another person's drawing in model space and dim'd an object. It displayed as tiny text and tiny ticks. I was in model space, so I thought the settings would be for paperspace. When I checked, there were dimstyles intended for model space, but when I checked the selected text style for text height, the settings were 1/8" or 3/32", which seem appropriate to paper space. Can anyone sort out this convoluted mess?

[rkent]

Set text height in STYLE dialog to zero, in your dim style set the text height there to the plotted height, .1" or what ever you use, finally set dimscale to the scale factor you will be plotting to, so for Arch 1/4"=1' the dimscale is 48.

[td88]

Set text height in STYLE dialog to zero

 

Thank you r,

 

One question on this. Does "STYLE" refer to text style and, if I set my text height in my text style to 0 does that not mean my text, other than dimensions, will have 0 text height? I use the same text for my dims that I use for my notes.

 

Tim

[Cad64]

You should create two text styles. One for dimensions, set to zero height as rkent stated, and another text style for notes.

[rkent]

Almost always when you see a single word in capitol letters that is an autocad command. So yes in this case STYLE is the command for text style. I use one text style set at a height of zero for dims and text, setting the text height the first time I use MTEXT.