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moon161

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Take a look at the attached pic, mindful that regardless of ISO or ANSI drafting standard, 'whatever Lola wants, Lola gets'
I've done this as a note superimposed over a dimension because I can't shuffle the text in the dimension itself to show what I want. Am I missing something? The note won't move with a dimension, but it is easy to show someone how to do it.

Thanks,
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=f97be1d6-79b9-46d5-9462-077da528cb4c&file=REF_DIM_.JPG
Click to highlight the dimension. The icon in the attached picture will appear. Mouse-over that icon and it brings up a text location box that attaches text to dimensions in locations. It'll make sense when you see it.
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=d7c43d78-b54d-49b6-b360-b4c7a9534d96&file=icon.png
Here's another way. A little more complicated, but more balanced. After your dimension in the Feature Manager type:
<STACK size=1 divider=no>DIM<OVER>REF</STACK>
You can add this as a Favorite, so you don't need to keep typing it.

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