Dimensioning Enhancements

The dimensioning tools have been enhanced to improve your dimensioning workflow.

The new Dimensioning tool box (Tools > Main > Dimensioning) includes seven tools. Some of the dimensioning tools are combined, and tool settings are expanded to speed access to commonly changed settings during dimensioning. The traditional dimension tools remain available (Tools > Dimension Tools).

Additionally, the order of selecting dimension points is changed, enabling earlier dynamic display of the dimension. Under the old selection method, you select the start point, the location, and then the end point of the dimension. Under the new method, you select the start point and end point of the dimension, followed by the location.

This new method is the default. However, you can restore the traditional point order by setting the configuration variable MS_DIMLEGACYPOINTORDER to 1.

Dimension styles

The name of the Dimension Settings dialog box has been changed to Dimension Styles.

Dimension Audit utility

Dimension Audit (Utilities > Dimension Audit) is used to audit the dimensions in the active model. Problematic dimensions are highlighted with red ellipses and automatically zoomed. As you correct problems, the red ellipses change to green.