We can’t use Eyedropper to sample the look of a dimension object and apply it to another selected one
The dimension disappears when using the Eyedropper tool.
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Tested again, the sampling seems to be problematic. Colors can be sampled, but the sampling points are very strange. Sampling text styles is invalid.
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Yes, can verify.
It’s both fair and misleading (and a bit broken).While a live dimension object is treated by Ai as a solid item (and parts of it can’t even be selected with Direct Selection, until it’s expanded), it’s still just a group of text and strokes, dynamically updated. So it’s not the style of the whole dimension is sampled and applied, but specific basic characteristics of the clicked component. So when you click the text, it samples its fill, and tries to apply it to strokes, making them vanish... and it’s even more worse, sometimes it samples white of the background, or even anti-aliased pixels just on the edge of these, sampling gray!
Sure it should just work as expected — grabbing the whole look of it and applying it to selected dimensions...
