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Challenge: Making your dimension style text smaller to look more appropriate in your drawing

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Challenge: Making your dimension style text smaller to look more appropriate in your drawing

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] We are still in the annotation.dwg file, and what I'm going to do now is set you a small challenge to work to, and the following video will show you the solution to that challenge. You'll notice that the text height of the dimension text in this particular video looks different. It's smaller. You'll notice here the 4,000, the 1500, the radius 750 is smaller, and if you look at the chair and the insert text there for the Q leaders, they're the original height. So you can see that something has changed in your drawing. Now I can tell you what has changed in your drawing, and it is the dimension text height in the dimension style. So you will need to modify your dimension style and change the text height so it is smaller. Now, the text height that I've used in this particular video is 2.5 millimeters. When we originally created the dimension style, the text height was 4.5 millimeters. So we've made things smaller so it just looks more consistent on the…

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