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

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

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] We're staying in the annotation.DWG file, and at the moment, if you look at the screen, this is how your annotation.DWG file looks with the dimension style text, the large size that we set it to previously. Now, what we're going to take a look at now is the solution to the challenge that I set in the previous video. This text on the dimensions in the drawing is a little bit large and we need to just revisit that and change it slightly so it's a bit more appropriate in the drawing, it just looks more in context. There's nothing worse than having clumpy dimensions in your drawings, and these look a bit clumpy, a bit big, a bit unwieldy, so we're going to modify our dimension style. Now, in order to do this, I'm going to go to the annotate tab on the ribbon, there's the dimensions panel, and I'm going to click on the little arrow there to open up the dimension style manager. Now, Training_ANNO was the dimension style that we set up, it's also the dimension…

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