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Creating and using AutoCAD dimension styles effectively

Creating and using AutoCAD dimension styles effectively - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating and using AutoCAD dimension styles effectively

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- [Shaun] We're staying in our MetalPlate_002.dwg file, and what we're going to do now is jump back to the Model tab. We don't need to be in the Plan View Layout tab anymore. And we're going to start taking a look now at how we create a dimension style for our annotation in our drawings. Now textiles, we've done, and we've placed some single line text and some multi-line text. Pretty basic what we've done, but you can see how that workflow works now, and you can now go away, and little call to action for you, experiment with that multi-line text and single=line text. Now what we're going to do now is create a dimension style in the same way we created a textile. We're going to set a bunch of preset settings so that our dimension annotation appears in the drawing the way we want it to. Now before we do anything else, go to the Layer dropdown, and we're going to make sure that we're on the Dimensions layer. Now the reason I'm doing that is because you get a preview of your dimension…

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