You can control the
arrowhead symbols in dimensions and leaders including their type,
size, and visibility.
You
can choose from many standard types of arrowheads, or you can create your
own arrowheads. Additionally, you can
- Suppress the display of arrowheads, or
use one arrowhead only
- Apply a different type of arrowhead to
each end of a dimension line
- Control the size of arrowheads
- Flip the direction of an arrowhead using
the dimension shortcut menu
NoteFlipped arrowheads
maintain their appearance in versions later than AutoCAD 2002. However,
if you edit a drawing with flipped arrowheads in a release earlier
than AutoCAD 2006, the arrowhead directions will revert to their
original orientations.
To choose an arrowhead
-
- In the Dimension Style Manager, select
the style you want to change. Click Modify.
- In the Modify Dimension Style dialog
box, Symbols and Arrows tab, under Arrowheads, select the arrowhead
type for the first end of the dimension line.
The second arrowhead is automatically set to
the same type.
- To set the second end of the dimension
line to a different arrowhead type, select an arrowhead type from
the Second list.
- In the Size box, enter a size for the
arrowhead.
- Click OK.
- Click Close to exit the Dimension Style
Manager.
To flip the direction of
an arrowhead
- At the Command prompt, select a single
dimension object near the arrowhead that you want to flip.
- Right-click. Click Flip Arrow.
CommandsDIMSTYLE
Creates and modifies
dimension styles.
System VariablesDIMCLRD
Assigns colors to dimension
lines, arrowheads, and dimension leader lines.
DIMDLE
Sets the distance the
dimension line extends beyond the extension line when oblique strokes
are drawn instead of arrowheads.
DIMSD1
Controls suppression
of the first dimension line and arrowhead.
DIMSD2
Controls suppression
of the second dimension line and arrowhead.
