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Winning Techtip of January, 2007

How to Modify Dimension Texts of Several Level Dimensions?

a Techtip contributed by László Nagy

(Original tip: http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=13481&start=20)

László found this tip by accident, but it is worthwhile to keep track of it amidst the Technotes, too.

When you want to modify all or even some Level Dimensions in your project say in a way to make them refer to Reference Level 2 instead of Reference Level 1 (please see the Manual for more details on the Reference levels!), the obvious solution would be to select all text boxes then change them in one step.

However, when you select all level dimensions, the dimensions themselves get selected and it is the Level Dimension Settings dialog that will open when double-clicking on the Tool's icon or pressing Ctrl+T (Cmd+T on the Mac).

In order to make the Dimension Text Settings dialog open, instead of the above mentioned one, you need to do one simple step prior to opening the Tool Settings dialog: having selected the Level Dimensions you would look to change, just add a single Dimension Text to the selection as well. In this case, the Dimension Text Settings dialog will open when pressing Ctrl+T (Cmd+T on the Mac) and all changes made in that window will apply to every selected Level Dimension.

In the screenshot below you can see the Dimension Text Settings dialog open, when the selected Level Dimensions are set to refer to Reference Level 2.

To do this, simply click on the Insert Autotext checkbox, open the pull-down menu to the right of it, and select the option you want - in our case Reference Level 2.

Note: Reference Levels are display and input aids. Actual Elevation values are always calculated from Project Zero.

Hint: To learn more about Reference Levels, please read the relevant sections in the Manual.

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