macro to change dimension attributes

[rikonen]

I'm not up to speed on my vbasic but I'd like to have a way of selecting a dimension from my drawing and with a single keystroke have it change to bold italic from it's current attributes. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[DiegoLGraves]

use dimension style

 

[rikonen]

the only way I know how as of right now is select the dimension, select the other tab in the dimension dialog box, uncheck "use document font", click the font button, and then change your font style. I would like to select the dimension and hit a single hot key on the keyboard and have the dimension font style change. If I could do multiple selections that would be even better.

 

[handleman]

Possible with a macro, but I don't have time to do it.

As suggested, look into dimension styles. They may be called favorites in your version. Works with multiple selections, although it requires two mouse clicks rather than one key press.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[DesignerGuy16]

You can always try what handleman suggests, while recording a macro.

Mind you, the record macro functionality can be very spotty at times. For things like this though, may work out ok other than you'll probably have to figure out how to get the variable for the current selection(s) and run them through the script.

Since I'm almost positive it will input the very specific dimension name in the recorded macro.

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP