Autodesk AUTOCAD LT 2010 Tips And Tricks Manual page 13

Dimensions
The Dimension Style Manager has been
tweaked to provide you with new con-
trols over the display of your dimension
text.
On the Text tab, the Vertical option un-
der Text Placement now includes Below
in addition to Centered, Above, Outside,
and JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard).
Also under Text Placement is the new
View Direction setting, which enables
you to have your text read Left-to-Right
or Right-to-Left.
The Primary and Alternate Units tabs of
the Dimension Style dialog box include
new a sub-unit control in the suppression
of leading zeros. Instead of displaying a
dimension value less than 1 as a decimal,
you can specify a sub-units factor and
suffix. For example, if the default unit
is 1 meter, you could specify a sub-unit
factor of 100 and sub-unit suffix of cm.
In this case, when the dimension value is
less than 1, such as .96, it would display
as 96 cm.
The sub-unit control is only avail-
able for dimension styles using either
the Decimal or Windows Desktop unit
format.
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