AutoCAD 2010 Dimensions Turned on Their Ear

by Colleen Klein

Did you ever need to have your dimensions behave differently than everyone else’s? There is a new option in Dimension Styles that is for the really deep and thoughtful people who are looking for something special.

In AutoCAD 2010 you can set the dimension text view direction to Right to Left or Left to Right. This is found on the TEXT tab of your Modify Dimension Style dialog box. The default is Left to Right.  So what does this mean? If you change it to Right to Left, the text will be upside-down and backwards. See image below. Industries who have this as a requirement will find it significantly easier to set up the drawing dimensions.