Dimension Colour change in Annotation Styles

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Hi all,
Is it possible to change the colour of dimensions in general by default settings?
I can not find these option in Annotation Styles?

E.g. Every time I launch rhino 6, I would like to draw dimension in blue.
Even though, I work in a layer other than blue.

Thanks for the response. Mati.

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Hi Mati - setting all dimensions on the same (blue) layer is one way -
`_SelDim _ChangeLayer’

V7/WIP makes this more automatic with SetDimensionLayer.

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal,
Thanks for helping me speed up the work.
Even though, it is still an extra action.
I believe, V7 implements the dimension color adjustments directly into the annotation settings…
Mati

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Hi Mati -

You can put the command in your start-up list and point it to a layer that you have defined in your personal template. That way there is no extra action needed.

There are no settings for annotation color in Rhino 7.
-wim

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Perhaps in the context of what the OP was originally trying to do only.

However, I was doing a search and came across this post because I’m needing something similar.
I’m needing to have dimensions on the same layer as my objects but being able to assign a unique color per dimension per layer.
This helps differentiate an object line from a dimension line, and also helps know at a glance which dimensions belong to which layer and which objects.

Not being able to do this actually turns it into many steps and many additional layers.

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Hi -

Dimensions, just like any other objects, have a “Display Color” property that can be set to something other than the layer color.
-wim

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Ok, thanks.
I was looking under properties tab with 'Linear Dimension" selected. And there is no color property/settings for it.
But if I select “Object” it does let me set the color other than layer color specifically for that dimension.

So the problem really was my assuming a Dimension is a dimension only and not an object - like what we create( ie. information about an object, not an object itself). I think otherwise I would have looked elsewhere. Now I know Rhino has an ‘expanded’ definition of what an object is.