AutoCAD Tips to Scale Text and Arrows for Dimensions with the AutoCAD Properties Palette

August 11th, 2009

Here’s our AutoCAD Tips and Tricks post about ‘AutoCAD Tips to Scale Text and Arrows for Dimensions with the AutoCAD Properties Palette’. We’re very sure that almost all AutoCAD users, especially for AutoCAD beginners, have a problem when make dimension of arrows and text. Usually, their dimension arrows and text too big or too small. How to solve this problem? This ‘AutoCAD Tips to Scale Text and Arrows for Dimensions with the AutoCAD Properties Palette’ are very useful for all AutoCAD users who want to make change of their AutoCAD for scaling text and arrows for dimensions with the Properties palette. Enjoy it and start learning right now!

Here are the ways for scaling text and arrows for dimensions with the Properties palette of AutoCAD:

1. First, a quick fix is to open the properties palette by double clicking on the dimension to change and expand the Fit area of the palette.
2. Then, in the fit line of this area the scaling factor for the text and dimension arrows is shown.
3. By changing this number, your text and arrow size will change accordingly.
4. A very common scale to print is 1/8″=1′, so the fit number should be 96 to match the common printing scale.
5. Remember, you scale text up to the right size so that it will scale back down and be the right size when you print.
6. To use another scale other than 1/8″=1′ divide the 96 in half to go to the next lowest scale, 48, or double the 96 to go up to the next highest scale 192.
7. Well done!

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