DIMSTYLE and STYLE - Style Manager

Manage text styles and dimension styles - font, height, arrows, decimals, units and colour.

What it does

The Text & Dimension Styles dialog creates and edits the styles used by text and dimensions. When you edit a style, every object that uses it is updated.

Where to find it

Ribbon: Annotate › Styles › Text Style / Dim Style or Manage › CAD Standards
Command line: DIMSTYLE (aliases D, DST, DDIM)
Command line: STYLE (alias ST) opens the Text Styles tab
Quick defaults: Annotate › Text Defaults / Dim Defaults

Text Styles tab

Option	Meaning
Font	Any Windows font.
Height	The text height.
Width factor	The text width (1 = normal).
Rotation	The text angle.
Bold / Italic	Bold / italic text.

Dimension Styles tab

Option	Meaning
Text height	The height of the dimension numbers.
Arrow size	The size of the arrowheads.
Precision	The number of decimals.
Units	mm, cm, m, in, ft
Color	The dimension colour.

Common buttons

Button	Meaning
New / Rename / Delete	Creates, renames or deletes a style.
Set Current	Uses this style for new objects.
OK	Saves and updates the existing objects.

Try it: Dimension style for small parts

A DIN 125 M8 washer is only 16 mm across. With a style made for big plates its numbers would be larger than the part. A SMALL PARTS style with 2.5 mm text and one decimal fixes that once for every small part you draw.

Front view: C 0,0 radius 8 and C 0,0 radius 4.2. Edge view: REC 16,-8 → 1.6 Tab 16.
Select the outer circle and type CENTERMARK 10.
Type DIMSTYLE. On the Dimension Styles tab click New and name it SMALL PARTS. Set Text height 2.5, Arrow size 1.5 and Precision 1. Click Set Current, then OK.
DDI on the outer circle: Ø16.0. DDI on the hole: Ø8.4.
DLI across the edge view, from 16,-8 to 17.6,-8, placed below: 1.6.

M8 washer dimensioned with the SMALL PARTS style: Ø16.0, Ø8.4 and 1.6

Challenge: Open DIMSTYLE again, change SMALL PARTS to Text height 2 and click OK. All three dimensions update together.