Problem
You change styles and:
XREF updates correctly
DREF does NOT
Root Cause
DREFs:
pull object data only
styles are resolved locally in host drawing
XREFs:
bring in full graphics + styles
Create a dimension style that uses a foot mark suffix for linear dimensions and no suffix for radius or diameter dimensions.
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