Then we've circled back to where we were about midway in this thread.  Let's see the macro code you've tried so far.  Short of a LISP routine that looks like the way you're going to have to go.  But it's not going to be automagic... I have a feeling you'll still be doing them one at a time.

 

Dave.

 

I can see the problem more clearly now when you explain different styles for various scale factors!

 

Dave.

 

We have over 300 designer/drafters working for us, so even a small time saver will equal a savings. We use reference dimensions on almost all drawings we do and we work on a ton of drawings per year. If I have a drawing with multiple dimstyles then I have to create a reference dimstyle for each of those. So if I have 4 different scale factors in a drawing that would equal 8 dimstyles.

 

Yes it's easy enough to double click the dimesion and just add the parentheses if there are only a few dimensions. I am currently working on a drawings set with over 50 drawings and roughly 90 details. That's a lot of double clicking.

 

I was just trying to see if anyone had ever tried creating a new command to accomplish something similar.

 

This doesn't sound to me like something that needs to be done all that often.  So I'm having kind of a hard time understanding why not just  double click any dims needing parens and add them when needed.  Done.  Or, if several are calling, just switch to the custom DIMSTYLE and whack all in one go.  Done and done.

 

I'm all for automating and programming but I always ask myself beforehand one important question: Will the time I'm about to spend programming this solution be paid back or not?  And the key to that is how often I expect to need the routine to begin with.

 

Dave.

 

Dave.