IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi! I am Jeff Bartels. Welcome to
AutoCAD Essentials 4: Annotating a Drawing.
| | 00:09 | In this title, we'll use AutoCAD's
Annotation tools to begin transitioning our
| | 00:13 | work from conceptual design into production.
| | 00:16 | We'll start by creating some text and
produce professional looking results.
| | 00:20 | Next, we'll apply dimensions such that we can
accurately document the design for production.
| | 00:26 | Along the way, we'll explore some
dimensioning best practices and I'll show you
| | 00:30 | how to format your dimensions
to meet the needs of any design.
| | 00:33 | Finally, we'll use multileaders to
annotate specific areas of a drawing.
| | 00:38 | I'll show you how to format and
reposition these notes to highlight any
| | 00:42 | aspect of a drawing.
| | 00:44 | When you're ready, follow
me and we'll get started.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you've purchased a DVD or are a
Premium subscriber to lynda.com, you'll have
| | 00:05 | access to the exercise files used in this title.
| | 00:08 | They will be in a folder called exercise files.
| | 00:11 | If you download them,
place them on your Desktop.
| | 00:14 | In there, you'll find the content
divided up into directories named after the
| | 00:18 | chapters where they are used.
| | 00:20 | By placing the exercise files on the
Desktop you'll be able to access them the
| | 00:23 | same way that I do in the course.
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1. Creating TextCreating single-line text| 00:00 | As nice as your geometry may be it
cannot tell the whole story on its own.
| | 00:05 | At some point you'll need to
add labels to your drawing.
| | 00:08 | Fortunately, AutoCAD supports two
types of text: single-line and multi-line.
| | 00:13 | In this lesson we are going to
create some single-line text.
| | 00:15 | On my screen I have a
drawing of a mechanical part.
| | 00:19 | As you can see I've created
several views of the subject.
| | 00:23 | I would like to label each of these views.
| | 00:26 | Before I do that take a
look at the layer control.
| | 00:28 | Notice I am practicing good form.
| | 00:30 | I've created a layer for my text objects.
| | 00:33 | To great my labels I am going to come
up to the Annotation panel and I'll click
| | 00:37 | the lower half of the Text icon
and I'll choose Single Line text.
| | 00:41 | Now I can just follow the command line prompts.
| | 00:45 | I'll click on screen to
identify the start point of a text.
| | 00:49 | I can then specify the height.
| | 00:50 | Normally, we want our texts to be large enough
such that it's readable on the printed sheet.
| | 00:55 | For this example I'll go with a
height of .25 and I'll press enter.
| | 01:00 | Now I can specify the rotation angle. I
can do that by entering a value or free
| | 01:05 | picking a point on screen.
| | 01:07 | For this exercise I am going to press
Enter and accept the default angle of 0.
| | 01:12 | This will ensure that my text
reads horizontally across the screen.
| | 01:16 | Now I can just start typing.
| | 01:18 | I'll type TOP VIEW.
| | 01:20 | When I'm finished all press Enter,
Enter, and I've just created my first label.
| | 01:26 | Let's create another.
| | 01:27 | I am going to zoom out
and I'll pan the drawing up.
| | 01:30 | I will then move back up and
launch the Single Line text command;
| | 01:34 | as you can see that is now
the default here in the Ribbon.
| | 01:38 | I'll click on screen.
| | 01:40 | I will then press Enter to accept the
previous height and rotation angle and
| | 01:44 | I'll type FRONT VIEW, Enter, Enter.
| | 01:48 | Let's create one more.
| | 01:49 | I'll pan the drawing over.
| | 01:51 | I am going to press the
Spacebar to relaunch the Text command.
| | 01:55 | I'll click on screen to start and let's
make this text a little bit different.
| | 01:59 | I'll use a height of .15 this time
and then I'll click on screen to specify
| | 02:05 | the rotation angle.
| | 02:06 | Then I'll type RIGHT SIDE VIEW, Enter, Enter.
| | 02:11 | Let's zoom out and I'm sure you'll agree
that this label would look better if it
| | 02:16 | was the same as the others.
| | 02:18 | To fix this I'll select the text
object and then I'll come over to my
| | 02:21 | Properties palette.
| | 02:22 | Mine happens to be anchored to the interface.
| | 02:24 | If yours is not, you can press Ctrl+1
to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 02:29 | I'll use the slider to drag down so I
can see the text settings and then I'm
| | 02:34 | going to change the Height
of this text object to .25.
| | 02:38 | I'll press Enter and then I'll
assign a rotation angle of 0.
| | 02:43 | When I'm finished I'll move away
from the palette and let it collapse.
| | 02:46 | One important thing to note; these text
objects are just like any other entity in AutoCAD.
| | 02:51 | We can move, rotate, or copy these objects.
| | 02:54 | I'd like to move this label a little bit.
| | 02:56 | I'll do that by clicking the grip and
I'll push this up and center it a little
| | 03:00 | bit better on this view. As long as I'm
at it, I'll click the FRONT VIEW and we
| | 03:04 | will push it up a little bit farther,
and I'll take the TOP VIEW and I'll move
| | 03:09 | this over to the right to little bit.
| | 03:11 | When I'm finished I'll press Escape.
| | 03:13 | Let's create one more
label for this isometric view.
| | 03:16 | This time I'd like to label
to read parallel to the edge.
| | 03:21 | I'll relaunch the Text command, I'll
use the endpoint of this edge as my start
| | 03:25 | point. To keep the text consistent
I'll use a height of .25, and then the
| | 03:31 | rotation angle will be defined by
the other endpoint of this line.
| | 03:35 | Then I'll type ISOMTRIC VIEW, Enter, Enter.
| | 03:41 | I can wrap this so by selecting the
text object, I'll grab this grip, and I'll
| | 03:45 | pull the text to the other side of the object.
| | 03:48 | When I'm finished I'll press Escape and
then I'll double-click the wheel on my
| | 03:51 | mouse to do a zoom extents.
| | 03:53 | With its straightforward settings and
overall ease-of-use, single-line text is
| | 03:58 | the perfect tool for adding
individual labels to a drawing.
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| Justifying text| 00:00 | Believe it or not in some ways
AutoCAD gives us more text options than most
| | 00:04 | desktop publishing programs.
| | 00:06 | In this lesson we're going to explore
text justification; an area where AutoCAD gives
| | 00:11 | us a tremendous amount of control.
Let's take a look.
| | 00:15 | On screen I have an example of some text.
| | 00:17 | Let's assume this text is
sitting on an imaginary baseline.
| | 00:21 | Most desktop publishing programs
give us three justification points: left
| | 00:26 | justified, center
justified, and right justified.
| | 00:30 | In AutoCAD, we have another baseline that
runs along the top of our text objects
| | 00:35 | and this baseline also has
three justification points.
| | 00:39 | There's another baseline that runs
through the middle of the text object.
| | 00:43 | This one has three justification points as well.
| | 00:45 | There is even another baseline that
runs along the bottom of our text objects,
| | 00:51 | and this baseline has
three justification points.
| | 00:54 | We even have an additional justification
point called middle that falls at the
| | 00:58 | absolute middle of the text object.
| | 01:01 | So as you can see, we have a
tremendous amount of control when it comes
| | 01:04 | to justifying text.
| | 01:06 | At this point you may be asking,
when would we need all of these
| | 01:09 | justification options?
| | 01:11 | Well, let's jump back over to AutoCAD.
| | 01:13 | On my screen I have a drawing of a
title block that I've been working on.
| | 01:18 | I am going zoom in on the lower right corner.
| | 01:21 | Take a look at my layer
control; I am practicing good form.
| | 01:24 | I have a layer for my text.
| | 01:25 | Also notice that I've created these
magenta lines; these represent the margins
| | 01:30 | I'd like to use in each
text area in the title block.
| | 01:34 | We have two main text heights that
we're working with. This small text has a
| | 01:37 | height of .05 and this larger text
has a height of .1. I'd like to start in
| | 01:44 | this upper text area.
| | 01:45 | I'd like to re-create a text label
very similar to this one that says title.
| | 01:50 | I'd like to add the word PROJECT
up here in the upper left corner.
| | 01:54 | To do that I'm going to come up to
the Annotation panel and I'll launch the
| | 01:57 | Single Line Text tool.
| | 02:00 | Now where's my start point going to be?
| | 02:02 | Take look at the command line.
| | 02:04 | I am going to come down and chose Justify.
| | 02:06 | I will then use the Top Left
justification point, and I'd like this top-left
| | 02:13 | justified at the Shift+Right-Click
intersection of these two margin lines.
| | 02:19 | I'll press Enter to accept the height of .05.
| | 02:22 | I'll also accept the rotation angle
and I'll type PROJECT:, Enter, Enter.
| | 02:29 | Let's add another label.
| | 02:31 | Down here in this box I'd like to add
the word REVISION, and I'd like it to be
| | 02:35 | centered inside this shape, and I'd
like it to be up against my margin.
| | 02:40 | I'll launch the Single Line Text command again.
| | 02:42 | I'll then come down and choose Justify.
| | 02:45 | This text is going to be middle left
justified, and I'd like it middle left
| | 02:50 | justified at the midpoint of this line.
| | 02:54 | I'll accept the height and
rotation angle and I'll type REVISON.
| | 03:00 | As you can see, using these text
justification options I can precisely place my
| | 03:04 | text in this title block. Let's try another.
| | 03:07 | I'd like to create a larger text
item in this upper block, similar to the
| | 03:11 | one beneath it, and I'd like to position
this text exactly in the middle of this area.
| | 03:17 | I'll launch the Text command again.
| | 03:19 | My start point, I'll come down to Justify.
| | 03:22 | This time I'm going to use a Middle.
| | 03:25 | And where the middle point
of the text is going to be?
| | 03:28 | Shift+Right-Click, Mid Between 2 Points.
| | 03:31 | I'd like it placed midway between the
endpoint here and the endpoint here.
| | 03:37 | Let's go with a height of .1. I'll accept the
rotation angle of 0, and I'll type PROJECT NAME.
| | 03:46 | I'll pan this over a little bit more.
| | 03:48 | Take a look at this area.
| | 03:49 | I've got designed by, drawn by;
this is going to be checked by.
| | 03:53 | This text is going to be middle right
justified up against this margin line.
| | 03:58 | I'll launch the Text
command. Here's a shortcut;
| | 04:01 | rather than coming down and
choosing Justify, if I just type the letters
| | 04:05 | that represent my justification, AutoCAD will
recognize that I'm entering a justification.
| | 04:10 | So I'll type MR and press Enter.
| | 04:13 | The middle of right point of the
text will be the midpoint of this line.
| | 04:18 | I'll go with a height of .05 and the
rotation angle of 0, and this will say CHKD:,
| | 04:26 | and I'll press Enter twice.
| | 04:27 | Now let's take care of
these blocks on the right.
| | 04:31 | Over here I'd like to have some
placeholders that represent the initials of the
| | 04:34 | people that work on this plan set.
| | 04:37 | I'll launch the Text command
again. I'm going to use my shortcut.
| | 04:41 | This will have a justification
of middle left, ML, Enter.
| | 04:45 | It will be middle left
justified at the midpoint of this line.
| | 04:50 | I'll accept the height and rotation
angle and for right now I'm just going to
| | 04:54 | type XXX for the initials.
| | 04:57 | Rather than re-creating two more
text objects let's just copy this one.
| | 05:02 | I'll launch the Copy command.
| | 05:04 | What do I want to copy? L for last.
| | 05:06 | That was the last thing I created.
| | 05:08 | I'll press Enter to let AutoCAD know I
am finished selecting objects, and I'll
| | 05:12 | pick this up from the lower right
corner of this block and I'll place it to the
| | 05:15 | lower right corner of the other blocks.
| | 05:17 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 05:20 | Finally, let's take care of this area below.
| | 05:23 | This is going to say Sheet 1 of whatever
sheet number we end up with the plan set.
| | 05:30 | So the word OF appears obviously
going to be top center justified.
| | 05:34 | Let's launch the Text command.
| | 05:36 | Start point of text, I am just going to type TC.
| | 05:39 | The top center point will
be the midpoint of this line.
| | 05:43 | The height is .05, the rotation angle is 0.
| | 05:46 | I'll type OF and I'll press Enter twice.
| | 05:49 | Let me show you something important.
| | 05:51 | If I select this text object that I just
made notice that it has a couple grips.
| | 05:56 | You'll always have a grip
in the lower left corner.
| | 05:59 | You'll also have a grip at the
location of the justification point.
| | 06:03 | This grip can also be used as an object snap.
| | 06:06 | I am going to deselect
this and I'll select this 1.
| | 06:10 | Based on the grip location we can see
this text was placed center justified.
| | 06:15 | Let's copy this text from its insertion point
to the midpoint of this line on the other side.
| | 06:21 | I'll press Escape to deselect and then
I am going to come up and launch Copy.
| | 06:26 | I'll select a number and press
Enter, base point, Shift+Right-Click.
| | 06:31 | I'll come down and choose Insert.
| | 06:33 | This allows me to grab it
by the justification point.
| | 06:36 | I'll then hover close to
the text object and click.
| | 06:40 | I'm holding it from that justification
point and now I'd like to place it to the
| | 06:44 | midpoint of this line.
| | 06:45 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 06:48 | Now that I'm finished adding text, I'd
like to remove all of these margin lines.
| | 06:53 | I'll do that by selecting one of them.
| | 06:55 | I'll right-click and choose
Select Similar and I'll press Delete.
| | 07:00 | As you can see with a great deal of
settings comes a great deal of control.
| | 07:04 | Using AutoCAD's extensive list of
justification options we can precisely
| | 07:08 | position text anywhere in a drawing.
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| Controlling appearance using styles| 00:00 | In most drawings you'll have text that
represents several different things; callouts,
| | 00:05 | titles, legends, even company logos.
| | 00:09 | For this reason, AutoCAD allows us to
create text styles, such that each type of
| | 00:13 | text can have its own unique look.
| | 00:15 | In this lesson we're going
to create some text styles.
| | 00:18 | On my screen I have a drawing of a
title block that I've been working on.
| | 00:23 | I'm going to zoom in on the lower right
corner and I'd like to start by looking
| | 00:27 | at the text styles that we have in this drawing.
| | 00:30 | To do that I'll click to expand the
Annotation panel and then I'll click to open
| | 00:35 | the Text Style menu, and you can see that
we only have one style called Standard.
| | 00:41 | This is the style that was
used to create all of this text.
| | 00:44 | That's why it all looks the same.
| | 00:47 | Let's create a new style.
| | 00:49 | To do that I'm going to
click Manage Text Styles.
| | 00:52 | This brings up the Text Style dialog box.
| | 00:55 | Over here on the left is a listing
of all of the styles that I have in
| | 00:58 | the current drawing.
| | 00:59 | On the right, I have some icons
I can use to manage my styles.
| | 01:03 | I am going to click New and I'm going
to create a text style called title text.
| | 01:11 | It's a good idea to name your styles based
on what the text is going to be used for.
| | 01:17 | I'll click OK and now that I have given
my style and name I'm going to open the
| | 01:21 | Font menu and I'll select the font.
| | 01:24 | As I drag up and down through this list,
I'm sure the fonts look different than
| | 01:28 | what you see on your screen.
| | 01:29 | Everybody's system is unique.
| | 01:31 | Pay note to the icons in front
of the font name.
| | 01:35 | The TT represents TrueType.
| | 01:37 | This is a Windows font.
| | 01:39 | And the caliper represents that this
font was installed with your AutoCAD.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to select the
Arial Narrow font for my style.
| | 01:49 | Then I'll come over to the Font
Style menu and I'll choose Bold Italic.
| | 01:53 | Notice how you can see the
preview update in the corner.
| | 01:57 | I can use the Height setting to
hardcode a height on the style,
| | 02:00 | that way any time I create text
using this style, it'll automatically be
| | 02:04 | assigned to this height.
| | 02:06 | I'm going to leave this
at 0 for right now.
| | 02:09 | By doing that, any time I create text
with the style, I'll have an opportunity
| | 02:12 | to assign a height.
| | 02:14 | Using this check box I can make my text
annotative, such that it properly sizes
| | 02:19 | itself for the scale of my plot.
| | 02:21 | This is a topic that's best to be
saved until we talk about plotting.
| | 02:26 | Down at the bottom of the dialog box
you'll find several special effects.
| | 02:29 | For instance, we can make the
style upside down, backwards.
| | 02:34 | I can adjust the Width Factor to
change the width of the characters.
| | 02:38 | I'll set this back to 1 and I
can assign an Oblique Angle.
| | 02:42 | This text already has an italic property.
| | 02:45 | If I enter an angle here I
can push this over even further.
| | 02:48 | I am going to set this back to 0 and
when I am finished adjusting my Text Style
| | 02:54 | settings, I'll come down
and click Apply and Close.
| | 02:57 | Title text is now the current text style.
| | 03:00 | So any text that I create from this
point on will conform to those properties.
| | 03:05 | Let's create some text.
| | 03:06 | I am going to click to open the Text menu,
and I'll choose Single Line.
| | 03:11 | I'll click on screen to start my text
and I'm going to give this a height of .20.
| | 03:17 | I'll accept the rotation angle of 0
and I'll type, This is what title text
| | 03:24 | looks like.
| | 03:27 | Now let's change the current text style.
| | 03:30 | I'll come back and expand the Annotation panel.
| | 03:33 | I'll open the Text Style menu
and I'll choose Standard this time.
| | 03:37 | I'll create another single-line text
object right above the previous one, using a
| | 03:42 | height of .20 and a rotation angle of 0,
This is what standard text looks like.
| | 03:51 | Let's make one more style.
| | 03:52 | Maybe I'd like to create some
specialized text for my general notes.
| | 03:56 | I am going to open the Annotation panel,
I'll click the Text Style icon. I'm
| | 04:02 | going to create a new
style called general notes.
| | 04:07 | I'll open the Font menu.
| | 04:09 | Since this list is quite long
I am going to use a shortcut.
| | 04:12 | I'm going to type the letter C; that takes
me to that point alphabetically in the list.
| | 04:17 | And I'm going to choose
City Blueprint for my font.
| | 04:20 | I will accept all of the other
settings and I'll click Apply and Close.
| | 04:25 | Let's create another single-line text
object using the same height and rotation
| | 04:30 | angle, This is what general notes looks like is.
| | 04:36 | The best part about having your text
properties controlled by a style is that if
| | 04:41 | you've to make changes later, all you
have to do is update the style and all of
| | 04:45 | your text will change automatically.
| | 04:46 | For example, all of the text that we
see in this title block was created
| | 04:51 | using the Standard style.
| | 04:53 | Let's change the properties of that style.
| | 04:56 | We'll go right back to the Text
Style dialog box. I'm going to select the
| | 05:01 | Standard style, and let's change the font.
| | 05:04 | I'll open the menu and then I'm
going to use my keyboard shortcut.
| | 05:08 | I'll type the letter T to go to that
area alphabetically in the list and I'm
| | 05:12 | going to choose Times New Roman.
| | 05:14 | Let's also give this style an italicized look.
| | 05:18 | I'll click Apply and Close.
| | 05:21 | Then to get the text objects
to update, I need to regen.
| | 05:25 | I'll type RE and press Enter.
| | 05:28 | And you can see that all of the text
objects created using the Standard style
| | 05:32 | now conform to the new properties of that style.
| | 05:35 | Let's make one more change.
| | 05:36 | I am going to select all of these large
text objects and then I'll come over to
| | 05:42 | the Properties palette.
| | 05:44 | Mine happens to be anchored to the interface.
| | 05:46 | If yours is not, you can press Ctrl+1
to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 05:50 | We'll drag down the Text settings and
I'm going to open the Style menu, and
| | 05:56 | notice as I drag across these styles
we can see the text update on screen.
| | 06:01 | Let's change the style of these
objects to the title text style.
| | 06:04 | When I'm finished I'll press Escape to deselect.
| | 06:07 | As you can see, using text styles we can have
a variety to the appearance of our annotation.
| | 06:14 | Later on, if changes are necessary, we can
simply change the style and all related
| | 06:19 | objects will update automatically.
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| Annotating with multi-line text| 00:00 | In addition to single-line text
AutoCAD has another text creation tool.
| | 00:05 | In this lesson, we're going
to look at multi-line text.
| | 00:08 | Multi-line text is the perfect
choice for annotations that require
| | 00:11 | paragraph style formatting.
| | 00:13 | On my screen I have a detailed
drawing of a manhole lid and frame.
| | 00:18 | I'm going to drag this over, such that
I have some room to create a paragraph.
| | 00:24 | Before I create this text,
take a look at the layer control.
| | 00:27 | Notice I'm practicing good form;
| | 00:28 | I have created a layer for my notes.
| | 00:31 | I'm also going to open the Annotation
panel to show you that I have created a
| | 00:35 | Text Style as well, and
I've set that style current.
| | 00:39 | Since the note that I'm creating
requires word wrap and paragraph formatting,
| | 00:43 | I'm going to use see the multi-line text tool.
| | 00:46 | I can find that inside the Text menu on
the Annotation panel. I can also access
| | 00:52 | the command by clicking this large A.
| | 00:54 | After I launch the command you can see
the current text height at my cursor.
| | 00:59 | I'm going to click on screen and then
I'll pull over and I'll click again to
| | 01:03 | define the width of my column.
| | 01:06 | Now I can start typing;
| | 01:08 | This is an example of multi-line text.
| | 01:14 | Notice I have word wrap now.
| | 01:18 | Also notice additional formatting
options in the Ribbon.
| | 01:23 | Take a look at the top of the screen.
| | 01:25 | As soon as I launch the Multi Line
Text tool, AutoCAD brought up the Text
| | 01:29 | Editor tab in the Ribbon.
| | 01:31 | This gives me access to all of my text settings.
| | 01:34 | Take a closer look at some of these icons.
| | 01:36 | These are the same tools that you'll
see in most word processing programs.
| | 01:41 | Let's take a look at some of the settings.
| | 01:43 | If I come down and click Text Style, I
can select a different style for this text.
| | 01:49 | If I just hover over a style, I can get a
preview of what it's going to look like.
| | 01:53 | I am going to stick with
my original for right now.
| | 01:57 | Just for a second I am going to jump
over here and select some of this text.
| | 02:02 | Using this menu I can change the text
height by selecting an entry in the list
| | 02:07 | or by typing in my own.
| | 02:09 | Once again I'll stick with the original setting.
| | 02:12 | Using these icons I can make the text
bold or italicized, I can underline it,
| | 02:17 | Overline it. I can create strikethrough text.
| | 02:20 | Let me turn some of these off.
| | 02:23 | If I open this menu I can convert
the text to uppercase or to lowercase.
| | 02:29 | If I want, I can override the font
that's assigned to the style that
| | 02:33 | I'm currently using.
| | 02:34 | I'm going to press the letter C to
jump to that area in the list and then I'll
| | 02:38 | roll my mouse wheel down and I'm going
to select CityBlueprint for this example.
| | 02:44 | If I wanted, I could force a color on this text.
| | 02:48 | I'm going to come over and click and
hold on this double arrow and pull this
| | 02:52 | down and make my column height a little taller.
| | 02:55 | Now I don't have enough text to fill
this area. I'm doing this so I can show you
| | 02:59 | the Justification setting.
| | 03:01 | This controls the location
of our text inside the column.
| | 03:05 | Currently it's Top Left justified.
| | 03:07 | I can also make it Top Center or Top
Right, Middle Left, Center or Right, Bottom
| | 03:13 | Left, Center or Right.
| | 03:15 | Let's leave this at the original setting.
| | 03:17 | I am going to come back over
here and I'll select all of my text.
| | 03:22 | Using these icons I have more
traditional justification settings.
| | 03:26 | Here is center, right, full
justification or full justification with
| | 03:32 | distributed text.
| | 03:33 | I am going to put this
back to the default setting.
| | 03:37 | If you have any questions about the
options you see in the Text Editor, press F1
| | 03:41 | right now and you can access AutoCAD's
Help feature and get more information.
| | 03:45 | I am going to zoom out just a
little bit and I'll pan the drawing over.
| | 03:50 | Take a look at this ruler at the
top of the Editor; these large ticks
| | 03:53 | represent tab stops.
| | 03:56 | If I click to put my cursor in front
of this text I can press the Tab key to
| | 03:59 | jump to those stops.
| | 04:01 | I'm going to Backspace to take those out.
| | 04:04 | If I click on the ruler I
can add my own custom tab stop.
| | 04:08 | If I click and hold on a custom stop
and drag it off the ruler, I can remove it.
| | 04:13 | Let me Backspace this out.
| | 04:16 | If I click and hold on the diamond at
the end, I can drag this back and forth
| | 04:20 | and change the width of my column.
| | 04:23 | If I click and hold on this arrow at
the top-left, I can drag this over and
| | 04:27 | change the first line indent.
| | 04:29 | Using the arrow beneath it, I
can change the paragraph indent.
| | 04:32 | I am going to drag both of
these back over to the left.
| | 04:37 | Probably the most powerful setting we have
with multi-line text is this tool at the bottom.
| | 04:42 | If I push this up, such that my column
isn't tall enough to hold all of the
| | 04:46 | text, AutoCAD will start a new column, and my
text will flow from one column to the other.
| | 04:54 | If I click and hold on the double arrows I
can change the width between the columns.
| | 04:59 | And as I push this up and
down I can control the height.
| | 05:03 | When I am finished formatting my text, I can
come up and click the X to close the editor.
| | 05:07 | Now that we have an idea of how the
Multi Line Text tools works, let's try and
| | 05:12 | use it in a practical example.
| | 05:15 | I'm going to start by selecting this
text and I'll press Delete to remove it.
| | 05:20 | Then I'll open the layer control and I'm
going to turn on the layer called text-hide.
| | 05:25 | Let's see if we can use the
tools to recreate this text object.
| | 05:29 | The first thing I'm going to do is
select the text and check its height.
| | 05:33 | I'll do that by coming over
to the Properties palette;
| | 05:36 | mine happens to be anchored to the
interface. If yours is not, you can press
| | 05:40 | Ctrl+1 to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 05:43 | And I can see that it has a text height of 0.1.
| | 05:46 | I'll press Escape when I'm finished.
| | 05:49 | Let's pan this down a little bit.
| | 05:51 | I'll launch the Multi Line Text tool.
| | 05:54 | I'll click on screen and then I'll
pull over to find my column width.
| | 05:58 | I will then come over and set the
text height and then I can start typing.
| | 06:06 | Now that I am finished with the text I'm
going to make a few formatting changes.
| | 06:10 | I'll start by clicking and dragging
across this word and I'm going to underline it.
| | 06:15 | Then I will drag across Storm Sewer. We'll
make this bold, and I'm going to make it uppercase.
| | 06:22 | Finally, I'll click and hold on the diamond,
and I'll drag this out such that the width
| | 06:27 | of my column matches the original.
| | 06:30 | When I'm finished, I'll click
on screen to dismiss the editor.
| | 06:34 | When it comes to creating paragraph
style annotations, you can't beat the
| | 06:37 | Multi Line Text tool.
| | 06:39 | It makes creating notes as easy as
using your favorite word processor.
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| Editing text| 00:00 | Of all the editing tasks we do in AutoCAD,
editing text is probably the easiest.
| | 00:05 | That's because when we edit text, we
don't need any special commands, all we have
| | 00:09 | to do is double-click.
| | 00:10 | On my screen I have a detailed drawing.
| | 00:13 | This drawing contains both
single-line and multi-line text.
| | 00:18 | Let's make some changes to
the single-line text first.
| | 00:20 | We'll make the assumption that this
drawing on the right should have been
| | 00:24 | SECTION A-A and the on the
left should have been SECTION B-B.
| | 00:28 | To make the change, I'm going to
double-click on this text object.
| | 00:32 | As you can see I can edit the text in
place, so I can see my changes within the
| | 00:36 | context of the drawing.
| | 00:38 | I'm going to click and then drag across
this text and I'll change this to A-A.
| | 00:44 | When I'm finished I'll press Enter to
accept, and notice that AutoCAD stays in
| | 00:48 | the Text Editing command.
| | 00:50 | That means I can come right over here,
click once on this text object, I'll
| | 00:55 | click and drag across this
text and change this to B-B.
| | 01:00 | I'll press Enter when I'm finished, and
then I'll press Escape to exit the command.
| | 01:05 | At this point you may be wondering
how I underlined this single-line text.
| | 01:09 | If I double-click to edit, you can
see this no special icon here to add an
| | 01:14 | underline, if you like to underline or
remove the underline from single-line
| | 01:18 | text, press Ctrl+U. I'm going to press
Ctrl+U again to bring the underline back.
| | 01:25 | When I'm finished, I'll press Enter and
then I'll press Escape to exit the command.
| | 01:30 | Let's zoom out, I'll pan the drawing
over and we'll make some changes to
| | 01:33 | this multi-line text.
| | 01:35 | Same workflow, all I have to do is
double-click on the text object, AutoCAD
| | 01:40 | brings back the Text Editor, giving me
access to all the same tools I had when I
| | 01:44 | created this text in the first place.
| | 01:47 | I'm going to click inside the Editor.
| | 01:49 | I'll press Enter a couple
times and I'll add another note.
| | 01:55 | Since I have additional text I
suppose I could change this to Notes now.
| | 01:59 | I'm also going to drag across this and
I'll make this text bold and italicized.
| | 02:04 | I would like to add a little
emphasis to the word STORM SEWER as well.
| | 02:09 | So I'll drag across that and
let's change its height to 0.125.
| | 02:15 | When I'm finished making changes I can
come down and click the X to close the
| | 02:18 | Text Editor, or I could
just click outside the column.
| | 02:23 | Another way we can edit text is by using grips.
| | 02:26 | If I select this text object
notice several grips pop-up.
| | 02:30 | I can use the one in the upper
left to move the text object.
| | 02:34 | I can use this one at the bottom to
change the column height, and I can use the
| | 02:38 | one in the upper right to
change the column width.
| | 02:41 | I'm going to click on this and I'll drag
the column down and make it a little narrower.
| | 02:46 | When I'm finished I'll press Escape to deselect.
| | 02:49 | If you want to change the properties of
the text, the fastest way to do this is
| | 02:53 | by using the Properties palette.
| | 02:55 | For example, I'm going to
select both of these Bs.
| | 02:59 | I'll come over to the Properties palette;
| | 03:01 | mine happens to be anchored to the
interface. If yours is not, you can press
| | 03:05 | Ctrl+1 to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 03:08 | If I drag the slider down we can find
all of the Text Settings right here.
| | 03:13 | I could adjust the text height if I
wanted. I'm going to change this to 0.125, I
| | 03:19 | could also adjust its Rotation or Width factor.
| | 03:22 | Probably one of the most
interesting settings is this one, Contents.
| | 03:26 | Being the both of these objects are the
same, I can edit them both by changing
| | 03:30 | this B to on A. I'll press
Enter to accept that value.
| | 03:34 | I'll then move my cursor outside the
palette and let it collapse and then I'll
| | 03:39 | press Escape to deselect the objects.
| | 03:42 | Let's do the same thing with these characters.
| | 03:45 | I'll change their height to 0.125, and
I'll change their Contents to B. When I'm
| | 03:52 | finished I'm going to double-click the
wheel on my mouse to do a zoom extents
| | 03:56 | and I'll zoom out just a little bit.
| | 03:58 | As you can see text revisions are one
of the easiest tasks we can accomplish in
| | 04:02 | AutoCAD. Not only can we edit the text
itself, we can also modify its properties
| | 04:07 | without ever having to launch a command.
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| Creating bulleted and numbered lists| 00:00 | The notes that appear on construction
drawings aren't always written in paragraph form.
| | 00:05 | Sometimes they are represented
as a numbered or bulleted list.
| | 00:09 | Fortunately, AutoCAD makes list
creation easy by automating the entire process.
| | 00:14 | In this lesson, we're going
to create a numbered list.
| | 00:16 | On my screen I have a tree planting detail,
I'm going to pan this over to the left
| | 00:23 | to give myself some room because I
would like to create a list of notes.
| | 00:27 | Let me mention that I've
created a layer for my notes.
| | 00:30 | I have also created a
Text Style for these notes.
| | 00:34 | To create a numbered list, I'm
going to use the Multi Line Text tool.
| | 00:38 | So I'll move up to the
Annotation panel and click the icon.
| | 00:41 | I'll then click on screen to start my
text and then I'll click again to define
| | 00:47 | the width of the column.
| | 00:49 | Before I get started I'd
like to change the text height.
| | 00:52 | Let's set this to 0.125 tall
and then I can start typing.
| | 00:58 | I'll type Notes and press Enter I'll
then enter the first number in my list and
| | 01:03 | here's the trick, I'll press the Tab key.
| | 01:05 | As soon as you press Tab, AutoCAD
recognizes that you're creating a list.
| | 01:12 | When I'm finished with my
first note, I'll press Enter.
| | 01:15 | Notice that AutoCAD adjusts the
formatting and it adds the next number for me.
| | 01:21 | I'll press Enter again to create
another note and we'll make one more.
| | 01:26 | Now that I'm finished with my notes,
I'm going to come up and adjust the
| | 01:31 | formatting slightly. I'm
going to underline this word.
| | 01:34 | When I'm finished I'll click
on screen to close the Editor.
| | 01:38 | Now let's say we come back tomorrow
and we would like to add a note to this
| | 01:42 | list, how difficult is that?
| | 01:43 | Well I'm going to double-click the
text object, I'll click at the end of this
| | 01:47 | line and press Enter, and you can see
AutoCAD picks up right where it left off.
| | 01:53 | What if we wanted to delete a note?
| | 01:55 | I'm going to click, hold and drag across
this note and then I'll press the Backspace key.
| | 02:01 | And you can see not only is the note
removed but AutoCAD renumbers the list.
| | 02:06 | When I'm finished, I'll click
on screen to close the editor.
| | 02:09 | After looking at this, it might be nice
to have an empty Carriage Return after
| | 02:13 | each of these notes just to
space them a little farther apart.
| | 02:17 | To do that, I'm going to double-click
to bring back the Editor, and then I'll
| | 02:21 | click at the end of Note 1
and I'll press Shift+Enter.
| | 02:24 | I'll then click at the end of Note 2,
and press Shift+Enter and I'll do the same
| | 02:29 | thing at the end of Note 3.
| | 02:32 | Take a look these Formatting
tools up here on the ruler.
| | 02:35 | I'm going to click, hold and drag to
select my notes, and if I drag this first
| | 02:41 | line slider back and forth, I can adjust
the spacing between the numbers and the notes.
| | 02:46 | If I click and hold and drag this Tab
over I can then drag the Paragraph slider
| | 02:52 | and adjust the indentation of the notes.
| | 02:54 | I'm going to drag these
back over where they were.
| | 02:58 | Maybe after making this list we decide
we don't want it to be numbered after
| | 03:02 | all, maybe we would like
it to be a lettered list.
| | 03:05 | If I move up and click the Bullets and
Numbering icon, I can change this from
| | 03:09 | Numbered to Lettered.
| | 03:11 | Let's make it Uppercase.
| | 03:13 | On second thought, let's
make this a Bulleted list.
| | 03:16 | Note that if I wanted to remove the list
feature altogether, I could use this option.
| | 03:21 | When I'm finished I'll click
on screen to close the Editor.
| | 03:25 | As you can see, creating a list doesn't
have to be a manual process. All we have
| | 03:29 | to do is get the list started and
then let AutoCAD manage the data for us.
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| Incorporating symbols| 00:00 | Sometimes construction drawings may
require special characters that aren't
| | 00:04 | found on the keyboard.
| | 00:05 | In this lesson, we're going to learn how
to access virtually any symbol we may need.
| | 00:10 | On my screen, I have a drawing
of a small plan of subdivision.
| | 00:14 | It consists of five single family lots,
and I'm in the process of labeling the
| | 00:19 | lot lines and the lot areas.
| | 00:21 | Let's zoom in a little bit closer.
| | 00:24 | I have one more bearing that I'd
like to label, that's going to look very
| | 00:27 | similar to this one.
| | 00:29 | Let's find out what the bearing of this line is.
| | 00:31 | To do that, I will select the
line, and I'll come over to the
| | 00:34 | Properties palette;
| | 00:35 | mine happens to be anchored to the interface.
| | 00:38 | If yours is not, you can press Ctrl+1
to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 00:42 | I will drag this down to the bottom, and we can
see this line was drawn at a 311 degree angle.
| | 00:49 | That's nice, but I want rather that angle
be displayed in degrees, minutes, seconds.
| | 00:54 | To do that, I'm going to
open the Application menu.
| | 00:57 | I'll come down to Drawing
Utilities, and I'll choose Units.
| | 01:01 | From here, I'll change the Angle Type
to Surveyor's Units, and the Precision
| | 01:06 | to the even second. I will click OK.
| | 01:10 | I will then select the line again, go
back to the Properties palette, and that's
| | 01:15 | the bearing that I'm looking for.
| | 01:16 | I will click in this field, and then I'm
going to click the Calculator icon, not
| | 01:21 | because I want to calculate a value,
I'm using this to steal this text.
| | 01:26 | I'll drag across it, and then right-
click, and copy it to my clipboard.
| | 01:30 | I will then close the calculator,
and I can deselect this line.
| | 01:35 | To label the line, I am
going to use single-line text;
| | 01:38 | the layer and the text
style have already been chosen.
| | 01:41 | I will open the Text menu,
and choose Single Line.
| | 01:45 | I'm going to use the Justify option,
this will be Top-Center justified.
| | 01:50 | The justification point will be the
midpoint of this line, and the rotation
| | 01:55 | angle is going to be the end point of the line.
| | 01:58 | Notice we weren't asked for a height,
that's because the height was assigned to
| | 02:01 | the text style itself.
| | 02:03 | Now that I am in the Editor, I am going
to press Ctrl+V to paste the contents of
| | 02:08 | my clipboard, and then I will
press Enter twice to finish.
| | 02:11 | I am going to zoom in a little bit more,
I will select this text, and I'm going
| | 02:16 | to click the grip, and
pull it away a little bit.
| | 02:19 | Now this looks good.
| | 02:21 | The only thing I need to change is
this D. I would rather it look like the
| | 02:25 | degree symbol that we see over here.
| | 02:28 | To add a degree symbol, I'm going to
double-click to bring up the Editor. I will
| | 02:32 | click just after the D and I
will press Backspace to remove it.
| | 02:35 | To add the degree symbol, I'm going to
type %, %, D. When I'm finished, I will
| | 02:42 | press Enter, and then I will
press Escape to cancel the command.
| | 02:46 | Now I know what you're thinking.
| | 02:47 | That was kind of cryptic.
| | 02:49 | Could there possibly be an
easier way? In fact there is.
| | 02:53 | I show you this method because if you
want to incorporate symbology into your
| | 02:56 | single-line text, you need to know the codes.
| | 03:00 | If however you're working with
multi-line text, incorporating symbols is easy.
| | 03:05 | This label is a multi-line text object.
| | 03:07 | It represents the square footage of the lot.
| | 03:10 | I'm going to double-click on this.
| | 03:12 | I'll click at the end of the text.
| | 03:14 | I will press space, and I'll type ft, and at
this point, I'd like to add a squared symbol.
| | 03:20 | I will do that by coming up to the
Text Editor, and opening the Symbol menu.
| | 03:24 | From here, we can find a list of
several industry-standard symbols.
| | 03:29 | If I move up to the top of the list,
you'll find Degrees as well as the code.
| | 03:33 | This is the same code we used a second ago.
| | 03:35 | If you'd like to use any of these
symbols in your single-line text, you can use
| | 03:39 | the code listed over here to the right.
| | 03:42 | Since I'm working with multi-line text,
I am going to work my way down towards
| | 03:46 | the bottom, and I will select Squared.
| | 03:48 | When I am finished, I will click on
screen to close the Editor. Let's do one more.
| | 03:52 | I will pan the drawing up, I will double-
click on this label, put my cursor at the end.
| | 03:58 | We'll type ft, open the Symbol menu,
and I'll choose Squared, and then I will
| | 04:04 | click to close the Editor.
| | 04:06 | Now that symbol list is nice, but it's
not necessarily an exhaustive list, what
| | 04:10 | if I want a symbol that
doesn't show up in that menu?
| | 04:12 | I am going to pan the drawing up.
| | 04:15 | Down here I'd like to add a Copyright symbol.
| | 04:18 | This is multi-line text.
| | 04:19 | I will double-click to bring up the Editor.
| | 04:22 | I will then open the Symbol menu, and
I'm going to drag down towards the bottom,
| | 04:28 | and I'll choose Other.
| | 04:29 | I'd like to go beyond what's shown in this list.
| | 04:33 | This brings up the Character Map dialog box.
| | 04:35 | From here, AutoCAD gives me access
to every character associated with the
| | 04:39 | current font, or any other font that happens
to be installed on my machine for that matter.
| | 04:46 | If I drag this down, you can see our
symbol choices are virtually unlimited.
| | 04:50 | Let's drag this back up towards the top.
| | 04:53 | I'm going to come over and choose the
Copyright symbol, and then I will click
| | 04:57 | the Select button to move
it down into the copy area.
| | 05:00 | As long as I'm down here, we can find
the code for this character over here
| | 05:03 | in the bottom-left.
| | 05:04 | I am going to come over and click Copy
to copy the value to my clipboard, and
| | 05:09 | then I'll close the character map.
| | 05:11 | I will then press Ctrl+V to paste this
character into the Editor, and you can
| | 05:16 | see AutoCAD gives me a
free carriage return as well.
| | 05:19 | I'll press Backspace to take that out,
and then I'll press the Spacebar to give
| | 05:23 | myself a little room.
| | 05:24 | I will click on screen when I'm finished.
| | 05:27 | When it comes to specialized symbols, we are
not limited to the ones printed on our keyboard.
| | 05:32 | Using AutoCAD's Symbol Manager, we can
easily leverage any character from any
| | 05:37 | font on our machine.
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| Correcting spelling errors| 00:00 | If your drawings are riddled with
spelling errors, it's hard for your clients
| | 00:03 | to take you seriously.
| | 00:05 | Fortunately AutoCAD keeps our text error
free by verifying everything that we type.
| | 00:10 | In this lesson we're going to
explore AutoCAD's spell-check feature.
| | 00:13 | On my screen I have a
drawing of a fire hydrant detail.
| | 00:18 | I'd like it add a title to this
drawing, but I mentioned that I've already
| | 00:21 | created a layer and a text style for this title.
| | 00:25 | I'll create the title using Multiline Text.
| | 00:28 | I'll click once on screen and then I'll
click again to define the width of the column.
| | 00:34 | Let's zoom in and we'll center this,
and I'm going to type typical hydrint
| | 00:43 | installation detail.
| | 00:45 | Take a look at this red line, AutoCAD
is constantly monitoring everything that
| | 00:49 | we type, and it will use this red line
to flag words that it doesn't recognize.
| | 00:55 | Now if you're not seeing this red
line, the feature may be turned off.
| | 00:58 | You'll find the toggle
right here in the Text Editor.
| | 01:02 | If this word is misspelled, you can
simply right-click on it and AutoCAD will
| | 01:06 | give you the top three
suggestions here at the top of the menu.
| | 01:09 | If these don't work, you can come
over to More Suggestions and find
| | 01:12 | additional choices over here.
| | 01:15 | If this word is spelled correctly, you
could add it to the dictionary, or you
| | 01:19 | could click Ignore All to remove the red line.
| | 01:22 | In this case the word is misspelled,
so I'm going to select Hydrant from the
| | 01:26 | menu to correct the word.
| | 01:28 | Finally I'll click on
screen to close the editor.
| | 01:31 | And that's it, as you can see with this
red highlighting feature it's actually
| | 01:35 | difficult to create
misspelled words. Let's zoom out.
| | 01:40 | I'll center the drawing on screen.
| | 01:42 | Let's talk about how we deal with existing text.
| | 01:45 | As you can see, I have quite
a bit of text in this drawing.
| | 01:48 | Let's make the assumption this is an older
file or one that I received from a consultant.
| | 01:53 | If you'd like to spell-check
existing text, you need to use the
| | 01:57 | dedicated spell-check tool.
| | 01:59 | Up to this point, we've been accessing all
of our Text tools from the Annotation panel.
| | 02:04 | If you look at the top of the screen
you'll see there's also an Annotate tab.
| | 02:08 | This is where you'll find the
full collection of Text tools.
| | 02:11 | I am going to click Check Spelling.
| | 02:14 | This brings up the Check Spelling dialog box.
| | 02:16 | You'll find this tool works
similar to the spellchecker in most word
| | 02:20 | processing programs.
| | 02:22 | The first thing we want to do is
identify where we're going to check.
| | 02:25 | If I open the menu, we can check the
entire drawing, we can check model space,
| | 02:30 | or a specific layout, or we
could check selected objects.
| | 02:33 | I am going to check the entire drawing;
| | 02:36 | I'll come over and click Start.
| | 02:38 | And AutoCAD will pan and zoom around
the file until it finds a word that
| | 02:42 | it doesn't recognize.
| | 02:43 | You can see that word highlighted right here.
| | 02:46 | If I come back over to the dialog box,
we'll see the word listed here as being
| | 02:50 | not in the dictionary.
| | 02:51 | We will find the best suggestion just below.
| | 02:55 | If this word doesn't work there
are additional choices in this menu.
| | 02:59 | Using these buttons on the right I can
tell AutoCAD how I'd like to handle this word.
| | 03:04 | If I click Change, I can correct this instance.
| | 03:07 | If I click Change All, I can
correct every instance of this word.
| | 03:11 | If I click Ignore, I can ignore this instance.
| | 03:13 | If I click Ignore All, I can
ignore every instance of this word.
| | 03:17 | If this word is spelled correctly and I
use it frequently, I could also add the
| | 03:21 | word to the dictionary.
| | 03:22 | I am going to click Change to correct the word.
| | 03:26 | And then AutoCAD moves
along until it finds another.
| | 03:29 | This time, it found AWWA.
Now this is not a misspelling,
| | 03:33 | it's an acronym that stands for
American Water Works Association.
| | 03:37 | This word does show up frequently on
construction drawings, so I'm going to
| | 03:41 | click Add to Dictionary.
| | 03:43 | Let's slide the dialog box over.
| | 03:46 | Looks like this word should be barrel;
| | 03:48 | in this case the best suggestion is incorrect.
| | 03:51 | So I'm going to choose barrel from
the menu below and I'll click change.
| | 03:56 | This word is also not a misspelling,
this one happens to be a brand name.
| | 04:01 | I don't see this one very often.
| | 04:02 | So rather than adding it to the
dictionary I am just going to click Ignore.
| | 04:07 | This word should be enamel. The
suggestion is correct, so I'll click Change.
| | 04:12 | And this word is threads;
the suggestion is correct,
| | 04:15 | once again I'll select Change.
| | 04:18 | And it looks like I have
another error in my Profile label.
| | 04:21 | The suggestion is perfect, so I'll
click Change to correct this word.
| | 04:25 | And my spell-check is complete.
| | 04:28 | When I am finished, I'll click
Close to exit the spellchecker.
| | 04:32 | If you're like me and you add
something to your dictionary, later on you may
| | 04:36 | wonder, you know what?
| | 04:37 | What if I made a mistake? How can I
take and remove something that's been
| | 04:40 | added to the dictionary?
| | 04:42 | To edit the dictionary we'll come
back to the spellchecker, come down and
| | 04:45 | click Dictionaries.
| | 04:48 | As you can see we are currently using
the American English Dictionary, there are
| | 04:51 | several other choices.
| | 04:53 | In the Content list below you'll find at the
very bottom all of the words that you've added.
| | 04:59 | To remove a word, select it and click Delete.
| | 05:03 | When I'm finished I'll click Close
and then I'll close the spellchecker.
| | 05:07 | Finally, I'll move back up
and set the Home tab current.
| | 05:10 | So whether you're entering text
yourself or checking a drawing you received
| | 05:14 | from a consultant, AutoCAD's spell-
check feature makes it easy to keep your
| | 05:18 | text error free.
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2. DimensioningCreating general dimensions| 00:00 | The goal of every design is to
eventually have it constructed.
| | 00:04 | So it's important that your
drawing be well-documented.
| | 00:07 | In this lesson, we're going to
explore AutoCAD's Dimensioning tools.
| | 00:11 | On my screen I have some simple geometry.
| | 00:13 | Before I apply dimensions to this, let
me mention that I have already created
| | 00:17 | a layer for the dimensions, and I'm
going to be dimensioning this geometry
| | 00:21 | using default settings.
| | 00:24 | You'll find the Dimensioning
tools in the Annotation panel.
| | 00:27 | If I open the menu, you can
see there are several options.
| | 00:31 | We'll create a Linear Dimension first.
| | 00:34 | I'll launch the command and then I'll grab
the endpoints on either side of this chamfer.
| | 00:39 | It's very important when you're
creating dimensions to use Object Snaps, that's
| | 00:43 | the only way to ensure that
your dimensions are accurate.
| | 00:46 | A Linear Dimension will give us the
horizontal or vertical distance between
| | 00:50 | our selected points.
| | 00:52 | So if I pull up, you can see I am
getting the horizontal measurement.
| | 00:56 | If I pull to the right, we see the vertical.
| | 00:58 | I am going to pull this up and
click to place the dimension.
| | 01:01 | Knowing what we know now, if we wanted
to dimension the overall height of this
| | 01:06 | part, we could launch the Linear tool;
| | 01:09 | grab the upper-left endpoint and then the
endpoint right at the end of this fillet.
| | 01:14 | I'll pull this over to the left, and I'll click.
| | 01:17 | Let's try another tool, I will open the menu
and this time we'll try an Aligned Dimension.
| | 01:24 | With an Aligned Dimension we'll get
the true distance between two endpoints.
| | 01:28 | If I select the same two endpoints we
started with and pull my dimension out,
| | 01:33 | you can see that the measurement is
parallel to this line, thus it's giving us
| | 01:37 | the true measurement of that geometry.
| | 01:39 | I am going to go back to the menu
and I'll select Angular this time.
| | 01:44 | To create an Angular Dimension, we can
select one line and then another, pull
| | 01:48 | out the measurement and click to place it.
| | 01:50 | I am going to create another.
| | 01:53 | Let's select this line and this line.
| | 01:56 | Notice that if we stay to the inside of
the angle, AutoCAD will dimension that;
| | 02:01 | if I move to the outside AutoCAD
will dimension the opposite angle.
| | 02:05 | If I move my cursor up or down I can
also dimension the supplementary angles.
| | 02:10 | Let's dimension this circle.
| | 02:12 | I'll go back to the menu and
I'll select Diameter this time.
| | 02:16 | I will then select the circle and I'll
pull the leader out and place it over here.
| | 02:21 | To dimension a radius it's the same workflow.
| | 02:24 | I'll launch the Radius tool and I'll
select this fillet this time and I'll pull
| | 02:29 | the dimension out and place it here.
| | 02:31 | Now how do we know if we
should be using diameter or radius?
| | 02:35 | Well a good rule of thumb, if you're
dimensioning a closed circle you'll
| | 02:39 | probably want to use diameter.
| | 02:41 | And if you're dimensioning an arc,
you'll probably want to use radius.
| | 02:44 | Now that we have an idea of how the
Dimensioning tools work, let's try and use
| | 02:48 | them in a practical example.
| | 02:50 | If I pan the drawing over
we've got a small mechanical part.
| | 02:54 | Let's try and document this geometry.
| | 02:56 | I'm going to start by
dimensioning the overall height.
| | 02:59 | So I'll go back to the Linear option,
I'll grab this upper-right endpoint and
| | 03:04 | I'll dimension down to
the endpoint of this fillet.
| | 03:07 | Then I'll pull my dimension over to the right.
| | 03:09 | I'll give myself enough room such
that I could place some additional
| | 03:12 | dimensions here if necessary.
| | 03:15 | Now let's identify the center of this circle.
| | 03:18 | I'll go back to Linear, I'll start from
that same endpoint and I'll select the
| | 03:23 | center of this circle and I'll
pull my dimension over to the right.
| | 03:27 | Now let's dimension the
overall width of the part.
| | 03:30 | We'll use Linear again, I'll grab this
rightmost endpoint and I'll come over.
| | 03:36 | And you might think that we'd grab the
midpoint or the quadrant here; usually we
| | 03:40 | don't dimension to a quadrant, so I'm
going to grab the center of this circle.
| | 03:44 | I will pull dimension up and place it here.
| | 03:48 | Now to ensure the contractor knows
the overall length of the part, let's
| | 03:51 | dimension this radius.
| | 03:54 | I'll select the Radius option, I'll
click this arc, and I will place the callout.
| | 03:59 | Now that we have the overall
width defined, let's identify some of
| | 04:03 | these additional points.
| | 04:04 | I am going to go back to Linear, and
I'll dimension from the center of the
| | 04:09 | circle to this upper-left
endpoint and we'll pull that out.
| | 04:14 | I'll press the Spacebar to
go back into the Linear tool.
| | 04:18 | We'll start from the endpoint where we
left off and go to the center of this
| | 04:21 | circle, and I'm going to pull the
dimension up and place it to the endpoint of
| | 04:26 | the previous arrowhead.
| | 04:28 | I'll press the Spacebar again, we'll
pick up from the center of the circle and
| | 04:32 | I'll dimension to the endpoint of the chamfer.
| | 04:35 | And I will place this at the
endpoint of the previous arrowhead.
| | 04:39 | Now do we have to create the final dimension?
| | 04:41 | No, I could add these three dimensions
together and subtract them from the 6.55
| | 04:47 | to get this dimension.
| | 04:49 | The trick to proper dimensioning
is to document your part with as few
| | 04:52 | measurements as possible.
| | 04:54 | You want to avoid redundancy.
| | 04:56 | I am going to add another horizontal
measurement, let's identify the distance
| | 04:59 | between these two holes.
| | 05:02 | I'll go back to Linear, I'll grab the
center of this circle and the center of
| | 05:05 | this one and I'll pull out the measurement.
| | 05:08 | At this point, we've documented the
top edge of the part, let's identify
| | 05:12 | this next edge down.
| | 05:14 | We'll do that using a linear dimension.
| | 05:17 | I'll grab this upper endpoint and I'll
grab the endpoint right below it and I'll
| | 05:21 | pull out the measurement.
| | 05:23 | That gets us to this edge.
| | 05:25 | I don't need a dimension to the next
edge down because we could use the radial
| | 05:29 | dimension to get there.
| | 05:30 | Let's dimension the length of this
line, let's identify this endpoint.
| | 05:35 | I'll re-launch the linear command;
| | 05:37 | I will grab the center of
this circle and this endpoint.
| | 05:41 | And as I pull this down, notice how the
dimension is sitting on top of the part?
| | 05:45 | I'm going to press the Escape key.
| | 05:47 | I'll press the Spacebar to go back into
the command and I'm going to dimension
| | 05:51 | it from the endpoint back to the
center of the circle, see how that puts the
| | 05:55 | number on the other side.
| | 05:56 | Next I'd like to identify this angle.
| | 05:58 | We'll grab the Angular tool.
| | 06:01 | I'll click both of these lines and
instead of pulling my angle out on top of
| | 06:06 | the other dimension;
| | 06:07 | I'm going to dimension the
supplementary angle instead.
| | 06:10 | So we've documented the top of
the part, the bottom of the part.
| | 06:14 | We've identified this point and this angle.
| | 06:17 | There is no dimension necessary for this point.
| | 06:21 | Once again that would be a redundancy.
| | 06:24 | Let's go back. I'd like to dimension a
radius now, we'll take care of this fillet.
| | 06:29 | Next we'll take care of this circle.
| | 06:31 | That will be a Diameter.
| | 06:34 | I'll click the circle and
place the dimension over here.
| | 06:37 | As I look at this I need one
more angular dimension up here.
| | 06:42 | I'll launch Angular again, I'll select
the chamfer edge and the top edge and
| | 06:47 | I'll create a supplementary measurement.
| | 06:50 | We'll pan the drawing down.
| | 06:52 | Finally we'll dimension these two holes;
| | 06:55 | since they're closed circles we're
going to use the Diameter option.
| | 06:59 | I'll select the outermost hole
first and I'll pull out the dimension.
| | 07:03 | Since these are both the same, instead
of creating another callout, I'm going to
| | 07:08 | double-click on this dimension.
| | 07:10 | It brings up the Text Editor.
| | 07:11 | I will click my right arrow to move
the cursor to the end of the dimension.
| | 07:16 | I'll press Enter, and I'll type 2 Holes,
when I'm finished I'll click on screen
| | 07:21 | to close the editor.
| | 07:23 | At this point I think we've
fully documented this part.
| | 07:26 | The best way to know if you have
enough dimensions is to pan the drawing over
| | 07:30 | and try and recreate the
geometry from your measurements.
| | 07:33 | If you're missing one, that's
how you're going to find it.
| | 07:36 | With a little practice using these tools,
you can quickly transition your design
| | 07:39 | from an idea into a constructed project.
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| Creating continuous and baseline dimensions| 00:00 | Sometimes creating a series of
relative dimensions can be the best way
| | 00:04 | to document a design.
| | 00:06 | Fortunately, AutoCAD allows us to quickly
place these dimensions one right after the other.
| | 00:11 | In this lesson, we're going to
explore the Baseline and Continuous
| | 00:14 | Dimensioning tools.
| | 00:15 | On my screen, I have a drawing that
represents a road cross-section and I
| | 00:20 | would like to dimension several of
these features to the left and right side
| | 00:24 | of the center line.
| | 00:25 | I'll start by creating a linear
dimension from the center line to the right
| | 00:30 | side edge of pavement.
| | 00:31 | I'll pull this up and click to place it.
| | 00:35 | At this point, I would like to pick up
where I left off, and dimension from the
| | 00:39 | edge of pavement to the top back of curb.
| | 00:41 | Rather than re-launching the
Linear command, I'm going to access the
| | 00:44 | Continuous Dimensioning tool.
| | 00:46 | Now I'm afraid we won't find
this tool in the Annotation panel.
| | 00:50 | This is actually a subset of
all of the Annotation tools.
| | 00:54 | To find the Continuous tool, I'll come
over to the Annotate tab, and then I'll
| | 00:58 | come over to the Dimensions panel,
open the menu and I'll choose Continue.
| | 01:03 | You can see that AutoCAD
picks up right where I left off.
| | 01:06 | I can snap to the top back of curb, the
left side of the sidewalk, and the right side.
| | 01:11 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 01:14 | I'm sure you'll agree that creating a
continuous string of dimensions is much
| | 01:17 | faster using this tool than it
would be to create these manually.
| | 01:22 | Let's pan the drawing over to the
left side, and let's say that I'd like to
| | 01:26 | dimension the same features over here,
except this time, I'd like the dimensions
| | 01:30 | to be relative to the center of the road.
| | 01:32 | Once again, I'll start by
creating a linear dimension.
| | 01:35 | Notice we have the same menu
here that we have on the Home tab.
| | 01:39 | I'll go from the center line to the
left side edge of pavement, and I'll pull
| | 01:44 | this up, and snap to the
end of my other dimension.
| | 01:47 | I will then move up to the
Dimensions panel, open the menu, and choose
| | 01:50 | Baseline, and I'll go to the top back of curb,
the right side of the sidewalk, and the left side.
| | 01:57 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 01:59 | In the event you're creating baseline
dimensions to a common point, this is
| | 02:03 | the best way to go.
| | 02:05 | Now, I'm all about shortcuts.
| | 02:06 | Let's take a look at one.
| | 02:07 | I am going to back up a little bit,
we'll pan the drawing down, and I'm going to
| | 02:12 | go back to the Home tab.
| | 02:14 | Let's say that I'd like to create
another baseline dimension from this last one
| | 02:18 | to the property line.
| | 02:20 | Rather than going back to the Annotate tab,
I'm going to select this last dimension.
| | 02:25 | I'll hover over the arrowhead grip
on the left side, and from the menu,
| | 02:29 | I'll choose Baseline.
| | 02:31 | I can then come over and snap
to the end of my property line.
| | 02:35 | Notice, I could keep going if I wanted to.
| | 02:37 | When I'm finished, I'll press
Escape twice to exit the command.
| | 02:40 | We'll pan this over, and we'll add
another continuous dimension on the right side.
| | 02:45 | I'll do that by selecting the
last dimension, hover over the grip.
| | 02:49 | I'll choose Continue and
I'll snap to my property line.
| | 02:54 | So in the event you need to create a
series of dimensions, try using the
| | 02:57 | Continuous or Baseline tools, and
place your measurements as fast as you
| | 03:01 | can click the mouse.
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| Controlling the appearance of dimensions using styles| 00:00 | In the same way the appearance of our
text is controlled by a text style, the
| | 00:04 | appearance of our dimensions is
controlled by a dimension style.
| | 00:07 | In this lesson, we're going to
learn how to create a dimension style.
| | 00:10 | On my screen, I have a pair of mechanical parts.
| | 00:14 | This one on the left has already been
dimensioned and it was dimensioned using
| | 00:18 | the default settings.
| | 00:19 | I'd like to dimension this part on the right.
| | 00:22 | Before I do that, let's take a look at the
dimension styles that we have in this drawing.
| | 00:27 | I'll open the Annotation panel, and I'll
click the Dimension Style menu, and you
| | 00:31 | can see that we only have one style, Standard;
| | 00:34 | that was the style that was used
to create all of these dimensions.
| | 00:38 | I'd like to create a new style.
| | 00:40 | To do that, I'll click the Dimension Style icon.
| | 00:43 | This brings up the Dimension Style Manager.
| | 00:45 | Over here on the left, I can see a
listing of the dimension styles in this drawing.
| | 00:50 | On the right, are a series of icons
that I can use to manage dimension styles.
| | 00:55 | I can set a style current, I can
create a new style, I can make changes to an
| | 00:59 | existing style, I can override the
settings of a style, I can even compare the
| | 01:04 | settings from one style to another.
| | 01:06 | I am going to select New, and then I'll
give my style a name, and I'll call it
| | 01:11 | my custom dimension style.
| | 01:15 | Take a look at the Start With setting.
| | 01:17 | Whenever we create a new dimension style, its
settings are always based on an existing style.
| | 01:24 | I'll click Continue, and at this point,
I have essentially created an exact
| | 01:28 | duplicate of the standard style.
| | 01:30 | Now I can make changes.
| | 01:32 | As I click through these tabs, you can
see that a Dimension Style has a lot more
| | 01:37 | settings than a Text Style.
| | 01:39 | I'm afraid we don't have time to go
through all of the settings in this lesson.
| | 01:43 | Let me show you a few ways you can
learn what each of these settings does.
| | 01:46 | If you have a question about a setting,
hover over it, and AutoCAD will bring up
| | 01:50 | a tooltip with more information.
| | 01:53 | Another way to learn what a setting
does is to change it and watch how it
| | 01:56 | affects the preview.
| | 01:57 | For instance, I'd like to suppress Dim line 2.
| | 02:01 | Let's turn that back on.
| | 02:03 | I'd like to suppress Extension
line 2, and we'll turn that back on.
| | 02:08 | For even more information about these
settings, you can come down and click the
| | 02:11 | Help button to access AutoCAD's help feature.
| | 02:14 | From there, you can research and find out
what every one of these settings is used for.
| | 02:19 | Let's make some changes.
| | 02:20 | Let's change the Extend
beyond dim lines setting.
| | 02:24 | That is the distance that the
extension line projects past the arrowhead.
| | 02:27 | I am going to change that from 0.18 to 0.10,
and when I press Enter, you can see
| | 02:34 | that change reflected in the preview.
| | 02:36 | It's important to note that whenever
you adjust a size in this dialog box, you
| | 02:41 | are setting the printed size.
| | 02:43 | That's the size you want this
to appear on the printed sheet.
| | 02:47 | Let's jump over to the Symbols and Arrows tab.
| | 02:49 | Notice that each of these tabs is
logically named, much like the ribbon.
| | 02:54 | This makes it easier when you're
trying to find a specific setting.
| | 02:57 | As you can see, we have a lot of
control over the appearance of our arrowheads.
| | 03:01 | I'm going to select Closed blank, so
mine look different than the original
| | 03:05 | style, and I am going to change
the size of the arrowheads to 0.225.
| | 03:11 | We also have a Center marks setting.
| | 03:14 | This controls the tick that we see at
the center of a dimensioned circle or arc.
| | 03:19 | In my dimension style, I'd rather not
see the mark, I'd rather see more of a
| | 03:22 | traditional center line.
| | 03:24 | We'll go the Text tab next.
| | 03:27 | From here, I can select a
text style for my dimensions.
| | 03:31 | If I open this, you can see we only
have the one style in the drawing.
| | 03:35 | If I click the Ellipsis button, I can create
a new text style from here. Let's do that.
| | 03:41 | I'll select New, and I'll call my
style dimensions, and I'll click OK.
| | 03:47 | I will then open the Font Name menu,
and I'll select the CityBlueprint font.
| | 03:52 | If you do not have this font
installed on your machine, select any other
| | 03:55 | font that you like.
| | 03:57 | One thing to remember;
| | 03:58 | any text style that you use in your
dimension style should have a height of 0.
| | 04:03 | This way, your text will scale up and
down proportionally with the rest of
| | 04:07 | the dimension geometry.
| | 04:09 | Now that I am finished,
I'll click Apply and Close.
| | 04:13 | I will then select my new text style.
| | 04:15 | You can see the change over here on the Preview.
| | 04:17 | We will go to the Primary Units tab next.
| | 04:21 | Currently, my dimensions are reading in Decimal.
| | 04:24 | If this was an architectural drawing,
I could set this to Architectural, and
| | 04:28 | then my dimensions would
read in feet and inches.
| | 04:30 | I am going to change this back to
Decimal, and then I'll change the Precision
| | 04:34 | to two decimal spaces.
| | 04:37 | Notice there is also a Precision for
angular dimensions, and currently this is
| | 04:41 | set to the even degree.
| | 04:43 | I'm going to change this to
two decimal spaces as well.
| | 04:45 | When I am finished adjusting the
properties of my dimension style, I'll click OK.
| | 04:51 | You can see my style is now
current, and I'll click Close.
| | 04:55 | Let's add some dimensions to this part.
| | 04:58 | I'll launch the Linear tool, and I'll
select the endpoints of this chamfer, and
| | 05:03 | I will place my dimension.
| | 05:05 | You can see the differences between my
dimensions style and the standard style.
| | 05:09 | I will press the Spacebar to go back
into the Linear command, and I'll dimension
| | 05:14 | the overall width of the part.
| | 05:17 | I will then dimension the
overall height of the part.
| | 05:21 | Let's do the radius.
| | 05:23 | Remember, in this dimension style,
we are not using the small mark.
| | 05:27 | If I grab this fillet, you can see
that we have a traditional center line.
| | 05:32 | I will dimension the diameter of the hole next.
| | 05:36 | Finally, I'll dimension the angle.
| | 05:39 | I'll select the chamfer edge,
and the top edge, and I'll create a
| | 05:43 | supplementary angle dimension.
| | 05:45 | Notice the difference in these two values.
| | 05:48 | Because the standard style defaults to
the even degree for angular measurements,
| | 05:53 | this dimension reads incorrect.
| | 05:56 | One of the best parts about having the
appearance of your dimensions controlled
| | 05:59 | by a style is that if you want to make
changes, you can simply modify the style,
| | 06:04 | and all the dimensions
will update automatically.
| | 06:07 | Let's make a change.
| | 06:08 | Maybe I'd like to adjust the text
height for all of these dimensions.
| | 06:12 | To do that, I'll open the
Annotation panel, and then I'll click the
| | 06:16 | Dimension Style icon.
| | 06:18 | I'll make sure my style is
selected, and I'll click Modify.
| | 06:22 | Since this is a text property, I'll
probably find the setting on the Text tab.
| | 06:28 | Let's change the text height to 0.25.
| | 06:30 | When I am finished, I'll click OK, and Close.
| | 06:35 | You can see that all of my
dimensions conform to the new setting.
| | 06:38 | Now that I have two dimension
styles in this drawing, I can use either
| | 06:41 | one whenever I like.
| | 06:43 | For instance, let's say, I'd like to
add another dimension to this part on the
| | 06:47 | left, and I'd like to use the standard style.
| | 06:49 | I'll open the Annotation panel, I
will set the Standard style current, I'll
| | 06:55 | launch the Linear tool, and then I'll
dimension the length of this edge on the right side.
| | 07:00 | At this point, the angle is now redundant.
| | 07:03 | Since it's technically incorrect anyway,
I'm going to select it and press Delete.
| | 07:08 | To create a similar dimension on the
right side part using my custom style,
| | 07:12 | I'll open the menu.
| | 07:13 | I'll set my style current, I'll launch
the Linear command, and I'll dimension
| | 07:18 | the right side edge.
| | 07:20 | As you can see, using the Dimensions
Style Manager, we have complete control
| | 07:24 | over the appearance of our dimensions.
| | 07:26 | Not only that, if we want to change the
way our dimensions look, we can simply
| | 07:29 | modify the style, and all related
dimensions will update automatically.
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| Modifying dimensions| 00:00 | Sometimes a dimension style may seem
restrictive, especially when dimensions
| | 00:04 | don't go in exactly the way you want them to.
| | 00:07 | Fortunately, AutoCAD makes it
easy to modify specific dimensions.
| | 00:11 | You can even break the rules a little bit
when it comes to the Dimension Style settings.
| | 00:15 | Let's take a look.
| | 00:16 | On my screen, I have a
drawing of a mechanical part.
| | 00:19 | Let me mention that I have already
created a dimension style for this drawing,
| | 00:23 | and I've applied some dimensions ahead of time.
| | 00:25 | I am going to zoom in on the Top View,
and I will launch the Linear Dimension
| | 00:31 | tool, and I'd like to dimension from this upper
-right endpoint to the center of this circle.
| | 00:36 | Now I'll pull the dimension up, and
I'll place it at an arbitrary location.
| | 00:40 | Now it would be nice if this
dimension was aligned to the other.
| | 00:45 | One way we can adjust the placement of
our dimensions is through the use of grips.
| | 00:49 | If I click to select this and you can
see there are several grips available. If
| | 00:54 | you click the grip on the text, you
can reposition the text on the dimension
| | 00:57 | line, you can even pull it outside
the dimension line if you want to.
| | 01:00 | I am going to put this back to the
middle, and I am going to grab the grip at
| | 01:05 | the end of the arrowhead.
| | 01:07 | I will pull this up and snap it to
the arrowhead of the other dimension.
| | 01:10 | There is one more change that needs to be made.
| | 01:13 | Notice the extension line
is overriding my centerline.
| | 01:16 | I'm going to click the grip at the end
of the extension line, and I'll pull that
| | 01:19 | up and snap it to the end
of my centerline geometry.
| | 01:22 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 01:25 | Let's pan down to the Front View, and
I'll create another linear dimension.
| | 01:30 | This time, I'll grab the
endpoints of this chamfer.
| | 01:34 | I'll pull this over to the left, and
I'd like this dimension to line up with
| | 01:38 | the one beneath it.
| | 01:39 | So I will snap this to the
endpoint of the arrowhead.
| | 01:43 | Take a look at this text.
| | 01:44 | It's running across the extension line.
| | 01:46 | Knowing what we know now, if I click to
select this, I could grab the grip, but
| | 01:51 | as I pull this, I end up pulling the
entire dimension. Let's press Escape.
| | 01:56 | Instead of selecting the grip,
I'm going to hover over it.
| | 02:00 | Notice the options I get in the menu.
| | 02:02 | From here, I'm going to select Move with Leader.
| | 02:05 | I can then pull the dimension with
the leader over to the other side.
| | 02:08 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape.
| | 02:10 | Let's pan the Front View over.
| | 02:13 | This time, I'd like to
dimension the width of this end.
| | 02:17 | We'll use the Linear tool, and I'll snap to
the endpoint here, and to the endpoint here.
| | 02:23 | Now in this case, AutoCAD placed the
dimension text outside of the extension lines.
| | 02:27 | I think it will fit.
| | 02:29 | What I'll do is select the dimension.
| | 02:32 | I will hover over this grip,
and I'll select Move Text Only.
| | 02:36 | Notice I'm holding this text at my cursor.
| | 02:39 | At this point, I can place
the text wherever I like.
| | 02:41 | I am going to move it between the
extension lines, and I'll click.
| | 02:46 | Be sure to explore the other options that
are available in that menu. Let's zoom out.
| | 02:52 | We'll go back to the Top View.
| | 02:54 | I will launch the Linear tool again.
| | 02:57 | This time, I'll create a dimension
from this upper-right endpoint to the
| | 03:01 | centerline of the part, and
I'll pull this over to the right.
| | 03:05 | Notice this dimension is the 2 decimal spaces.
| | 03:08 | I happen to know that this measurement is 0.875.
| | 03:12 | Now I could go in and edit the
dimension style, but then all of my dimensions
| | 03:16 | will be to 3 decimal spaces.
| | 03:18 | Instead, I'd like to make that
change to this dimension only.
| | 03:22 | If I select the dimension and right-
click, right here in the top of the menu,
| | 03:26 | you'll find a Precision setting.
| | 03:28 | From here, I can come over and select
3 decimal spaces, and the setting is
| | 03:32 | applied to this dimension only.
| | 03:34 | I am going to select this
again, and I'll right-click.
| | 03:38 | Notice in addition to changing the
Precision, we can also remove the style overrides.
| | 03:42 | That will put this
dimension back the way it was.
| | 03:45 | We can also use the Dimension Style menu
to assign a new dimension style to this
| | 03:49 | dimension, or we could save
this dimension as its own style.
| | 03:53 | I am going to press Escape to close
the menu and deselect the object.
| | 03:57 | Let's pan this back to the Front View.
| | 04:00 | I'll create a linear dimension, and we
will dimension from the bottom of this
| | 04:05 | chamfer to the top edge of this extension.
| | 04:08 | I'll get in here a little closer.
| | 04:10 | Notice I have an
extension line that's unnecessary.
| | 04:13 | It's running on top of the part.
| | 04:15 | Once again, I don't want to turn this
off in the dimension style or I'll lose
| | 04:19 | the extension line for all my dimensions.
| | 04:21 | Let's pan this over.
| | 04:23 | The way I am going to fix this is by
selecting the dimension, and I'll come over
| | 04:27 | to the Properties palette.
| | 04:28 | Mine happens to be anchored to the interface.
| | 04:31 | If yours is not, you can press Ctrl+1
to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 04:35 | As I drag the slider down, take a
look at the names of the major headings;
| | 04:39 | Lines & Arrows, Text, Fit,
Primary Units, Alternate Units.
| | 04:45 | These headings are the same as the
tabs that we see in the dimension style.
| | 04:50 | This means I have access to every
dimension style setting for this dimension only.
| | 04:55 | I'll drag this up to the Lines & Arrows section,
| | 04:58 | then I'll come down to
Extension line 2, and I'll turn that off.
| | 05:02 | When I am finished, I'll press Escape to deselect.
| | 05:06 | Using the Properties palette, each
dimension can have its own custom settings.
| | 05:09 | Let's pan over to the right side view.
| | 05:13 | I'll go back to the Linear tool, and
we will dimension the width of this tab.
| | 05:17 | I will also align this
to the previous dimension.
| | 05:20 | This is another instance where the
measurement should be to 3 decimal spaces.
| | 05:25 | Knowing what we know now, I could select
this and right-click and change the Precision.
| | 05:29 | I could also select it, go over to
the Properties palette, come down to the
| | 05:35 | Primary Units section, and I
could change the Precision here;
| | 05:39 | just another way to accomplish
the same task. Let's do one more.
| | 05:44 | I'd like to dimension this radius.
| | 05:47 | I'll launch the Radius command,
I'll select the arc, and I'll pull the
| | 05:51 | dimension out to here.
| | 05:53 | Notice there was no center mark.
| | 05:55 | In fact, if I pan this to the Top View,
you can see that my diameter dimensions
| | 05:58 | are not giving a center mark either.
| | 06:00 | That's because I chose to
create my center marks manually.
| | 06:03 | So that feature is turned
off in the dimension style.
| | 06:07 | In this case however, I
would like the mark turned on.
| | 06:10 | We can select this, go over to the
Properties palette, and in the Lines &
| | 06:14 | Arrows section, I will turn the center mark on,
and I'm going to make it a little smaller.
| | 06:20 | Let's set it to 0.04.
| | 06:21 | Finally, since this dimension is the
same on both sides, I'd like to make this
| | 06:26 | a typical dimension.
| | 06:28 | To do that, I'll double-click on the text.
| | 06:31 | This gives me access to the Text Editor.
| | 06:33 | I'll click the right-arrow to move
my cursor to the end of the line and
| | 06:37 | press Enter, and then I'll type TYP
for typical, and then I'll click on
| | 06:42 | screen to close the editor.
| | 06:45 | Think of the style as the
starting point for all dimensions.
| | 06:48 | In the event you have dimensions with
specific requirements, you can easily
| | 06:52 | customize them using the grips, right
-click menu, or Properties palette.
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3. Adding CalloutsCreating multileaders| 00:00 | Sometimes the notes we create are meant
to target a specific area of the drawing.
| | 00:05 | These notes are referred to as callouts,
and they typically include an arrow that
| | 00:09 | points to the object being referenced.
| | 00:11 | In this lesson we'll create some
callouts using the Multileader tool.
| | 00:15 | On my screen I have a
drawing of a streetlight detail.
| | 00:19 | Let's say that I'd like to reference
the specific light bulb that'll be used
| | 00:23 | in this installation.
| | 00:24 | To do that, I'm going to move up to
the Annotation panel and I'll launch the
| | 00:28 | Multileader command.
| | 00:29 | I will then set the location of
the Leader arrowhead, I'll do that by
| | 00:34 | Shift+Right-Clicking, and in the
Object Snap menu I'll select Nearest and I
| | 00:40 | will click on the arc.
| | 00:41 | I will then pull away and
click to set the leader.
| | 00:45 | Notice I get full access to the text editor.
| | 00:48 | At this point I can start typing.
| | 00:51 | Now before I get off the edge of
the screen, take a look at this icon.
| | 00:55 | If I click and hold on the double
arrows I can drag this out and set the
| | 00:59 | width of the column.
| | 01:01 | Then I can continue.
| | 01:01 | When I am finished I'll click
on screen to close the editor.
| | 01:06 | Let's create another callout.
| | 01:08 | I'll launch the Multileader command again.
| | 01:11 | This time I'm going to select
a point along this top edge.
| | 01:15 | I'll click to place the leader.
| | 01:18 | I will then drag out and set my column
width ahead of time and I'll add my note.
| | 01:25 | Let's place another and this time we'll
look at some of the additional options we have.
| | 01:30 | Take a look at the command line.
| | 01:32 | By default we set the arrowhead location first.
| | 01:35 | We can also create
multileaders by setting the landing first.
| | 01:39 | That's this straight segment right here.
| | 01:41 | Or we can place the content first.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to select that option.
| | 01:47 | I can then click twice to
set the width of my column.
| | 01:50 | I'll place my note and when I click on
screen to finish, I then get access to the leader.
| | 01:57 | One nice feature of this tool is
that we cannot create leaders that go
| | 02:01 | back against the text.
| | 02:02 | If I pull this far enough to the right,
you can see the leader jumps to the
| | 02:06 | other side of the note.
| | 02:07 | I am going to pull this back and I'll place
it to the endpoint of this small rectangle.
| | 02:13 | Finally, I'll pan the drawing up
and we'll create one more callout.
| | 02:17 | I am going to put the
settings back the way they were.
| | 02:20 | So I'm going to create this
by placing the arrowhead first.
| | 02:24 | I'll snap to the endpoint of this yellow line.
| | 02:28 | I'll set my column width
and I'll place my final note.
| | 02:32 | As you can see multileaders are the perfect
combination between a note and a dimension.
| | 02:37 | They match the power of the text
editor with the flexibility of a
| | 02:40 | dimension line.
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| Controlling the appearance of callouts using styles| 00:00 | You were probably wondering and
you're right, multileaders are also
| | 00:04 | controlled by a style.
| | 00:05 | In this lesson, we'll review the
Multileader Style Editor and create a custom style.
| | 00:10 | On my screen, I have a
drawing of a street sign detail.
| | 00:14 | Before we create a new multileader style
let's take a look at the styles that we
| | 00:18 | already have in this drawing.
| | 00:20 | To do that I'll open the Annotation
panel and then I'll click to open the
| | 00:24 | Multileader Style menu and you can see that
we only have one style, the default, Standard.
| | 00:30 | To create a new style I'm
going to click this icon.
| | 00:34 | This brings up the Multileader Style Manager.
| | 00:37 | Over here on the left I have a listing of
all of the styles that are in this drawing.
| | 00:41 | On the right are a series of icons
that I can use to manage the styles.
| | 00:45 | I can set a style current, create a new
one, make changes to a style, or I can
| | 00:51 | delete an unused style.
| | 00:53 | I'm going to click New and I'll call
my new style name callouts, and you can
| | 01:00 | see just like with a dimension style a
multileader style is also based on an existing style.
| | 01:06 | I'll click Continue and here in the
Editor we will find a series of logically
| | 01:11 | named tabs that contain
all of the style settings.
| | 01:15 | Each tab is also organized
into smaller groups of settings.
| | 01:19 | To find out what a setting does, hover over
it and AutoCAD will give you more information.
| | 01:24 | One of the best ways to learn what these
settings do is to change them and watch
| | 01:28 | how it affects the preview.
| | 01:31 | If you have specific questions about a
setting, you can come down and click Help
| | 01:35 | to access AutoCAD's Help feature.
| | 01:37 | From here you can research any of the
options available in this dialog box.
| | 01:41 | Let's make some changes.
| | 01:43 | First, I'm going to open the
Arrowhead Symbol menu and select a
| | 01:46 | different arrowhead.
| | 01:48 | I will change its size as well.
| | 01:51 | We'll bump this up to 0.2250.
| | 01:54 | Whenever you adjust a Size setting, you
want to make sure that you're using the
| | 01:57 | size that you want your object
to appear on the printed sheet.
| | 02:00 | All of these represent printed sizes.
| | 02:03 | Let's jump over to the Leader Structure
tab and I'd like to change the size of
| | 02:08 | the landing distance.
| | 02:09 | That's the straight line right here.
| | 02:11 | I'm going to knock that down to 0.1000,
and you can see the change reflected
| | 02:16 | over here in the preview.
| | 02:18 | Let's go to Content and right here in
the Text options group, we can find the
| | 02:23 | Text style that's associated
with this multileader style.
| | 02:27 | If I open the menu I can
select a different text style.
| | 02:31 | Let's create a new one.
| | 02:32 | To do that I'll click the Ellipsis
button, I'll select New, and I'll call
| | 02:37 | the text style notes.
| | 02:39 | I will then make sure
that the height is set to 0.
| | 02:42 | Any text style used in a
multileader style should have a height of 0.
| | 02:47 | That way your text will scale up and down
proportionally with the geometry of the leader.
| | 02:52 | When I'm finished, I'll click Close.
| | 02:53 | I'll then make sure and select my text style.
| | 02:57 | When I'm finished adjusting the properties
of my style I'll come down click OK and Close.
| | 03:04 | Let's create some callouts.
| | 03:06 | I'll launch the multileader command
and I'm going to create my leader from
| | 03:11 | nearest the right side edge of the pole.
| | 03:14 | I'll pull this out and I'll add my note.
| | 03:18 | Before I continue, we'll give ourselves
some column width, and when I'm finished
| | 03:24 | I'll click on screen. Let's add another.
| | 03:27 | I'll point to this bracket and I'll add my note.
| | 03:32 | Let me mention that you don't always have to
assign a column width to your multileaders.
| | 03:37 | In the event you're dealing with a
small note, there's nothing wrong with
| | 03:39 | hitting Enter and adding a hard carriage return.
| | 03:42 | It just comes down to personal preference.
| | 03:45 | I'm going to create one more.
| | 03:47 | Click to set the leader and I'll add my note.
| | 03:50 | And when I'm finished I'll click on screen.
| | 03:53 | Now that we've added some multileaders
let's change the style and see how it
| | 03:58 | affects their display.
| | 03:59 | I'll go back to the Annotation panel
and click the Multileader Style icon.
| | 04:04 | I'll make sure, my style is
selected and I'll click Modify.
| | 04:07 | Here on the Content tab I'm
going to select Frame text.
| | 04:12 | This will put a box around the notes.
| | 04:14 | I will then come down to a
Landing gap and we'll make this 0.03.
| | 04:20 | This will tighten the box up around the text.
| | 04:24 | Next, we'll go to Leader Format and we'll
change these from Straight leaders to Spline.
| | 04:30 | This will give our leaders a nice smooth curve.
| | 04:34 | When I'm finished, I'll click OK.
| | 04:36 | We'll move this box over and when I
click Close, you can see how those
| | 04:40 | adjustments have changed
the properties of my callouts.
| | 04:44 | As you can see by maintaining a style-
based workflow for text, dimensions, and
| | 04:48 | multileaders, AutoCAD makes it easy
to customize and control any of the
| | 04:53 | annotations in a drawing.
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| Modifying multileaders| 00:00 | As you make changes to a design your
callouts may need the change as well.
| | 00:04 | Fortunately, AutoCAD makes it easy to modify a
multileader's text, placement, or appearance.
| | 00:10 | Let's take a look.
| | 00:11 | On my screen I have a detailed
drawing that represents a fire hydrant
| | 00:15 | installation and I'd like to change
some of the callouts in this file.
| | 00:20 | I'll start by zooming in on
the top portion of the drawing.
| | 00:24 | To edit the text associated with a
multileader, simply double-click on the text object.
| | 00:29 | This gives you full access to the text editor.
| | 00:32 | I'm going to click at the end of
my note and I'll add some more text.
| | 00:38 | When finished I'll click on
screen to close the editor.
| | 00:41 | We can also reposition
multileaders if necessary.
| | 00:44 | As you can see I've some overlap going on here.
| | 00:47 | To move this leader on top I'll click
to select it and then I can use these
| | 00:51 | grips around the outside of
the text to reposition it.
| | 00:55 | I'm going to click the
grip in the upper left corner.
| | 00:59 | I'll move the text out and
then I'll click to place it.
| | 01:02 | I'm going to select this grip again,
because I want to show you that as you move
| | 01:06 | this around, AutoCAD will do its best to
make sure that the leader doesn't cross
| | 01:11 | over the text object.
| | 01:13 | If I move this far enough to the left the
text jumps to the other side of the leader.
| | 01:18 | Notice we have additional grip options.
| | 01:21 | If I select the grip at the end of the
arrowhead, I can reposition the arrowhead.
| | 01:26 | If I select the triangular grip, I can
change the length of the landing line.
| | 01:32 | As you add a grip, be mindful
of your running object snaps.
| | 01:35 | Notice that my cursor is below the landing line.
| | 01:38 | If I move my cursor up too high, my
running object snap takes over and I can no
| | 01:43 | longer edit this grip.
| | 01:45 | When I'm finished adjusting this
callout I'll press Escape to deselect.
| | 01:49 | I'm going to zoom out and I will pan the
drawing down and I'll center it on this
| | 01:55 | note that says CONCRETE BLOCK.
| | 01:57 | Here I would like to add a leader,
because I have some additional concrete
| | 02:01 | blocks over here to the right.
| | 02:03 | To do that I'll select the leader and
then I'll hover over this square grip at
| | 02:08 | the end of the landing.
| | 02:09 | This brings up a menu with
some additional editing options.
| | 02:13 | From here I'll select Add Leader and
then I'll click to place a leader in the
| | 02:18 | bottom concrete block, and then
I'll place one in the block above it.
| | 02:21 | I can add as many leaders
as I like at this point.
| | 02:24 | In fact, if I try to create a leader on
the left side of the object, you can see
| | 02:29 | the leader will snap to that side as well.
| | 02:31 | I'm going to press Escape.
| | 02:34 | Now what if I'd like to remove a leader?
| | 02:36 | In that case, I'll hover over the grip
at the end of the arrowhead and from this
| | 02:41 | menu I'll choose Remove Leader.
| | 02:43 | Be sure to hover over some of
the other grips and explore the
| | 02:46 | additional options.
| | 02:47 | Just like with dimensions, multileaders can
also be edited using the right-click menu.
| | 02:52 | If I select the multileader and right-click
I'll find additional editing options here.
| | 02:58 | Not only can I add or remove a
leader, but I could change the style
| | 03:01 | associated with this leader or I can create a
brand-new multileader style from this callout.
| | 03:08 | I'm going to press Escape a few times to
close the menus and deselect the object.
| | 03:12 | I'm going to pan the drawing over
such that we can see the note that
| | 03:15 | says COMPACTED SAND.
| | 03:18 | In this case, I'd like to change
the appearance of this callout.
| | 03:21 | Maybe I would like to change the arrowhead.
| | 03:23 | Rather than creating a
completely new style for one leader,
| | 03:27 | I'm going to select this one and
I'll come over the Properties palette;
| | 03:31 | mine happens to be anchored to the interface.
| | 03:34 | If yours is not, you can press Ctrl+1
to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 03:38 | And if I drag this slider down,
we'll find all of the settings that are
| | 03:42 | associated with the multileader style.
| | 03:44 | This means I can customize this
leader independently of its current style.
| | 03:49 | I'll click in the Arrowhead
setting and I'll change this to Dot.
| | 03:53 | When I'm finished I'll press Escape to deselect.
| | 03:56 | Let's make one more change.
| | 03:57 | I'm going to pan this back to the top
of the drawing, and let's say that this
| | 04:02 | lettering note is important.
| | 04:03 | I'd like this to stand out.
| | 04:05 | Once again, I don't want to create an
entirely new multileader style for one leader.
| | 04:10 | So I'll select this, I'll come back
over the Properties palette, and I'm going
| | 04:15 | to drag this slider all the way to the bottom,
and I'll set the Text frame value to Yes.
| | 04:21 | When I'm finished, I'll press Escape
and then I'll double-click my mouse wheel
| | 04:25 | to do a zoom extents.
| | 04:27 | As you can see using the text editor,
grips, and Properties palette, you can
| | 04:32 | easily keep multileaders updated
such that they always match the needs of
| | 04:35 | your design.
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4. Checking Your SkillsChallenge: annotating a drawing| 00:00 | Now that we've talked about several of
the Annotation tools available in AutoCAD;
| | 00:04 | I want to give you an opportunity to put those
tools together in the form of a small project.
| | 00:10 | On screen is your annotation challenge.
| | 00:12 | This drawing represents a
conceptual design for a flashlight.
| | 00:16 | I'd like you to add dimensions,
callouts and notes to this drawing.
| | 00:20 | I've provided you a finished example such
that you know how everything should look.
| | 00:25 | Let's open another drawing.
| | 00:26 | Inside the exercise files folder, within
the CheckSkills directory, you'll find a
| | 00:31 | drawing called AnnoFinished.
I'm going to open that.
| | 00:35 | Now that it's open, I'll select the
View tab and then inside the User Interface
| | 00:40 | panel I'll choose Tile Vertically.
| | 00:43 | I will then click inside each window
and pan and zoom the drawing on screen.
| | 00:49 | Using this finished example, plus the
available notes, I'd like you to complete
| | 00:53 | the drawing on the right such that
it looks like the drawing on the left.
| | 00:57 | Take as much time as you need, do the
best job you can and when you're ready
| | 01:01 | jump over to the next video and I'll
walk you through how I would approach
| | 01:05 | this same challenge.
| | 01:06 | Good luck!
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| Demo: annotating a drawing| 00:00 | As an instructor, I never expect you to do
something that I'm not willing to do myself.
| | 00:05 | So in this lesson I'm going to
show you how I would approach the
| | 00:08 | Annotation challenge drawing.
| | 00:10 | On my screen I have got both examples.
| | 00:12 | The finished version is on the
left and the version that needs to be
| | 00:16 | completed is on the right.
| | 00:17 | I'm going to start by creating a text style.
| | 00:21 | If I look at the notes in the finished
example, I can see that all text that
| | 00:25 | I create needs to be of the Arial
Narrow font, and it should be represented
| | 00:29 | at a height of 0.15.
| | 00:32 | To create the text style, I'll open
the Annotation panel and I'll click the
| | 00:36 | Text Style icon, I'll click the New button
and I'll call this style notes and callouts.
| | 00:44 | I will then assign it a font of Arial Narrow.
| | 00:47 | Since this text is going to be used in
dimensions and callouts, I am going to
| | 00:52 | leave the height set to 0 for right now.
| | 00:54 | We just have to have an understanding
that when we enter the text it needs to
| | 00:58 | be a height of 0.15.
| | 00:59 | When I am finished with the
style, I'll click Apply and Close.
| | 01:03 | I will then switch to the notes & callouts
layer and I'll re-create this list of notes.
| | 01:09 | To do that I'll launch the Multiline
Text command and then I'll click two points
| | 01:13 | on screen to define the width of my column.
| | 01:17 | In the Text Editor, I'll change the
height to 0.15, and then I can start typing.
| | 01:24 | After the first number, I will press
the Tab key that way AutoCAD knows I
| | 01:28 | am creating a list.
| | 01:31 | As I enter this, it looks like all of the
arrowheads in this file will measure 0.125.
| | 01:38 | And based on note 4 it looks like all of
the remaining layers are provided for us.
| | 01:43 | Now that I am finished with the list,
I'm going to click hold and drag across
| | 01:47 | the word Notes and I'll come up and click
the Underline button to underline that text.
| | 01:53 | I will then click on screen to close the editor.
| | 01:55 | Next I'd like to create a dimension style.
| | 01:58 | To do that I'll open the Annotation
panel, I'll click the Dimension Style icon,
| | 02:03 | I'll choose New, and I'll call this style
My Dimensions, and I'll click Continue.
| | 02:10 | Let's go to the Symbols and Arrows tab,
and based on the notes we need to make
| | 02:14 | sure the arrow size is 0.125.
| | 02:17 | I will then go to the Text tab and I'll
make sure that we're using the notes and
| | 02:21 | callouts text style, and I'll
set the text height to 0.15.
| | 02:27 | Finally I'm going to jump
over to the Primary Units tab.
| | 02:31 | If you look at the finished example you
can see the majority of these dimensions
| | 02:34 | are up to two decimal spaces, so I'm
going to open the Precision setting and
| | 02:38 | I'll change this to 2.
| | 02:40 | When I'm finished I'll click OK.
| | 02:42 | My Dimension style is now
current, I'll click Close.
| | 02:46 | I will then flip to the Dimensions
layer and we can add some dimensions.
| | 02:50 | I will click the Linear option and I'm going to
dimension the overall width of the part first.
| | 02:57 | I will then zoom in and we'll add
some of these interior dimensions.
| | 03:00 | I will create another linear
dimension from the lower-right corner to the
| | 03:04 | lower-right corner of this interior edge.
| | 03:07 | I'll pull this out and click to place
it and you can see that my dimension
| | 03:12 | doesn't match the original exactly.
| | 03:15 | To correct this I will select the
dimension and then I'll click the grip over
| | 03:18 | the number and I'll drag this to the other side.
| | 03:22 | Let's zoom back out on the finished example.
| | 03:25 | I'll come back to my drawing, and
since I've got a continuous string of
| | 03:29 | dimensions, I'm going to
select my previous dimension.
| | 03:32 | I'll hover over the grip and I'll choose
Continue and I'll pull this over to the
| | 03:37 | center of the circle, this corner,
and then to the center of the arc.
| | 03:43 | And I'm having a little trouble grabbing
that so I am going to Shift+Right-Click
| | 03:47 | to bring up the Object Snap menu.
| | 03:49 | I'll select Center and that will
guarantee that I'm getting that object snap.
| | 03:53 | When I am finished, I will press Escape.
| | 03:55 | Now I'd like to do a little more grip editing.
| | 03:58 | It looks like these extension
lines are overwriting the center lines.
| | 04:02 | So I'm going to select the extension,
I'll grab the grip and pull it to the
| | 04:07 | end of this marker.
| | 04:08 | I will then pan over, I'll grab this
extension and I'll pull this out to the
| | 04:13 | end of the center line.
| | 04:14 | And it looks like there are two
extension lines here. I'll select the other one
| | 04:18 | and I will pull it out to the same point.
| | 04:20 | I am going to zoom out and
I'll pan the drawing down.
| | 04:25 | Let's take care of the diameter
and the radius dimension next.
| | 04:28 | I will open the Dimension
flyout and choose Diameter first.
| | 04:32 | I'll select the circle, and
I'll pull out my dimension.
| | 04:36 | I will then change to Radius, I'll select
the arc and I'll pull out that dimension.
| | 04:42 | Take a look at the center marks that
are coming in with these dimensions.
| | 04:44 | I really don't need these because
I had center marks to begin with.
| | 04:48 | Let's change the dimensions style.
| | 04:50 | I am going to go back to the Dimension
Style icon, I'll choose Modify and on the
| | 04:56 | Symbols and Arrows tab,
I'll turn the center marks off.
| | 04:59 | I'll click OK and Close, and you can
see that changed the style, modified the
| | 05:04 | dimensions in the drawing.
| | 05:05 | Let's pan this over, and we'll
dimension the left side of the part next.
| | 05:11 | I'll go back to Linear and
I'll dimension the overall height.
| | 05:15 | I can do that by grabbing the outside
corners of this gasket and I'll pull the
| | 05:19 | dimension out to the left.
| | 05:22 | I'll press the Spacebar to go back into
the command and we'll dimension from the
| | 05:25 | center line to the upper-
left corner of the part.
| | 05:29 | I will then select that last dimension,
hover over the end grip and choose
| | 05:32 | Continue and I'll come up to the
upper-left corner of the gasket.
| | 05:37 | When I am finished, I will press Escape.
| | 05:40 | I will then pan over. Now this
dimension doesn't look exactly like the example.
| | 05:44 | To make the correction I will select it.
| | 05:46 | I'll hover over the grip that's on the
number and I'll choose Move with Leader,
| | 05:51 | and I'll pull this up.
| | 05:53 | I'd also like this dimension
to be to three decimal spaces.
| | 05:56 | Since it's still selected I'm going
to right-click and in the menu I'll
| | 06:00 | change the Precision to 3.
| | 06:02 | I am going to zoom out, pan this over.
| | 06:06 | Let's dimension some more widths. I'll
go back to Linear, and we'll go from the
| | 06:10 | upper-left corner of the part to the gasket.
| | 06:14 | I will then press the Spacebar to
relaunch the command and we'll dimension the
| | 06:18 | width of the gasket.
| | 06:19 | And I'll pull this up and snap
it to the endpoint of the previous
| | 06:22 | dimension's arrowhead.
| | 06:24 | Let's go back into Linear and this
time we'll dimension how far the gasket
| | 06:28 | extrudes from the edge of the part.
| | 06:31 | As you can see this dimension doesn't
match the example. I'll hover over the
| | 06:35 | grip on the number and I'll choose Move with
Leader and we'll move this to the other side.
| | 06:40 | Let's zoom back out on the finished example.
| | 06:43 | Only a couple of more dimensions left. Let's
take care of the dimensions on the right side.
| | 06:49 | First I'll dimension the overall
width and I'll pull out that dimension.
| | 06:53 | Then I'll dimension the distance from
the center line to the upper-right corner
| | 06:56 | of this interior edge.
| | 06:59 | This dimension needs to
be to three decimal spaces.
| | 07:02 | I could do that with the right-click menu.
| | 07:04 | Let's try it a different way.
| | 07:06 | I'll select the dimension and I'll
come over to the Properties palette.
| | 07:09 | Mine happens to be anchored to the
interface, if yours is not you can press
| | 07:13 | Ctrl+1 to bring your palette up on screen.
| | 07:16 | I will then drag down
through the dimension settings,
| | 07:19 | and inside the Primary Units group
down here at the bottom, I'll change
| | 07:23 | the Precision to 3.
| | 07:26 | I'll relaunch the command and I'll
dimension from the upper-right corner of this
| | 07:30 | edge to the upper-right corner of the
part and we'll snap to the arrowhead of
| | 07:34 | the previous dimension.
| | 07:36 | Finally if I want to be really particular, I
should move this number out just a little bit.
| | 07:40 | I will do that by selecting the
dimension, I'll click this grip, and I'll
| | 07:44 | pull out the number.
| | 07:45 | Now as I do this you can see it's
hard to keep this in line with the
| | 07:49 | previous dimension.
| | 07:50 | I'm going to come down and turn on my Ortho.
| | 07:53 | This will ensure that I pull straight up.
| | 07:56 | Let's zoom out, I will then pan over.
| | 07:58 | I am going to center the
view of both drawings on screen.
| | 08:03 | I'll click to put the focus back on my
drawing and we'll create some callouts next.
| | 08:08 | I'll create a style first, I'll do
that by opening the Annotation panel, I'll
| | 08:12 | click the Multileader
Style icon and I'll choose New.
| | 08:16 | I'll call the style, My Callouts.
| | 08:21 | And I'd like these to look similar to
the dimensions, so in the Leader Format
| | 08:25 | tab I'm going to change
the Arrowhead size to 0.125.
| | 08:28 | On the Content tab I will ensure that
we are using the notes and callouts text
| | 08:34 | style, and I'll make sure
the text height is 0.15.
| | 08:39 | I'd like to do one more undocumented thing.
| | 08:42 | Take a look at the length of the landing line.
| | 08:44 | This is quite a bit longer
than what we see in the example.
| | 08:48 | So I'll select the Leader
Structure tab, and I'm going to change the
| | 08:52 | landing distance to 0.1.
| | 08:55 | That looks a little bit closer to our example.
| | 08:57 | When I am finished I'll click OK.
| | 09:00 | My callouts style is now
current, so I'll click Close.
| | 09:04 | I will then flip back to
the notes and callouts layer.
| | 09:08 | Let's zoom in a little bit, I'll launch
the Multileader command, and I'll create
| | 09:12 | my leader from a point Nearest the
right edge of the gasket, I will turn the
| | 09:17 | Ortho back off, and I'll pull
this out and create my note.
| | 09:23 | I will also click hold and drag to
give myself some word wrap, and when I'm
| | 09:28 | finished I'll click on screen.
| | 09:31 | I am going to back up a little
bit, we'll pan the drawing down.
| | 09:35 | Let's create the note in the lower-right corner.
| | 09:37 | I'll relaunch the Multileader command.
| | 09:40 | I'll pull this note out to the right.
| | 09:43 | And instead of applying a column width
this time, I'm going to manually hit the
| | 09:47 | Enter key to format my text.
| | 09:50 | Based on the example it looks like we
need to change the arrowhead of this leader.
| | 09:55 | I'll select the multileader and
come over to the Properties palette.
| | 09:58 | I will drag down to the Leaders group
and then I'll use the Arrowhead setting to
| | 10:03 | change this to a Dot.
| | 10:04 | I am going to zoom out.
| | 10:06 | We're almost finished, looks like
we need to create the logo next.
| | 10:11 | That's going to involve another text style.
| | 10:13 | So let me click to put the
focus back on my drawing.
| | 10:17 | I'll open the Annotation panel
and click the Text Style icon.
| | 10:21 | I'll make a new style and
we'll call it Logo Text, click OK.
| | 10:26 | Based on the callout, this style
will have a font of Arial Black.
| | 10:32 | It will also have a Width Factor of 0.5.
| | 10:36 | And since this is a special-purpose
style I'm going to set the height right here.
| | 10:41 | We'll make that 0.45;
| | 10:43 | I will click Apply and Close.
| | 10:46 | I'll create the logo using single-line text.
| | 10:49 | I'd like to justify it using the
Middle option, and it's going to be
| | 10:53 | middle-justified between the
intersection of the arc and the centerline and this
| | 10:58 | vertical line and the centerline.
| | 11:01 | My middle point is going to be defined by
Shift+Right-Click, Mid Between 2 Points.
| | 11:07 | It will be the midway between the
intersection here and the intersection here.
| | 11:14 | I'll press Enter to accept a rotation
angle of 0 and then I'll type READY LITE.
| | 11:21 | When I am finished, I'll press Enter twice.
| | 11:24 | Finally we'll add the remaining callout.
| | 11:25 | I will zoom in and I really don't have
an Object Snap I can use in this case, so
| | 11:31 | I'll click close to the text.
| | 11:33 | Pull this out, pan the
drawing up and I'll add the note.
| | 11:37 | When I am finished, I'll click on screen.
| | 11:42 | I'll zoom out and center both
of these drawings on screen.
| | 11:46 | How did you do on your drawing?
| | 11:48 | If you got it finished, congratulations!
| | 11:50 | I couldn't be more proud.
| | 11:52 | If you struggled, don't worry,
this was a difficult exercise.
| | 11:56 | Now that you've watched me go through it,
try completing the drawing again using
| | 11:59 | this video as a guide.
| | 12:01 | When finished, try drawing it
again completely on your own.
| | 12:05 | With a little practice it won't be
long before you're annotating your
| | 12:08 | designs like a pro.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Well we've reached the end of the title.
| | 00:02 | I hope you've enjoyed
this time as much as I have.
| | 00:05 | At this point, you should be
comfortable with many of AutoCAD's Annotation
| | 00:08 | tools and feel confident applying some basic
notes, dimensions, or callouts to a drawing.
| | 00:14 | Don't stop here.
| | 00:15 | Take your skills even farther by
viewing the next title in the series
| | 00:19 | AutoCAD Essentials 5.
| | 00:21 | In this title we will learn how to create
custom symbols that can be reused in any file.
| | 00:25 | We'll also learn how to create
references that access drawing content or images
| | 00:30 | from anywhere on our machine.
| | 00:32 | See you there!
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