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Dimension tool

Dimension tool - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Dimension tool

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- [Instructor] The last tool that I want to speak to is sort of a Swiss army knife, all-in-one kind of a dimensioning tool. It's simply called the dimension tool, and it's found here on the dimension panel. It looks like it has a linear dimension here with a little sunrise kind of underneath of it. So if I click the tool, I'm asked to specify other points, lines, or objects that I want to dimension, and this tool is smart enough to figure out what exactly it is you're trying to dimension based on those points, objects, or lines that you select. So let's say I want to dimension the height of the bracket. I can actually put my cursor over the object, and it will give me the dimension. It'll do the same thing for this line down here. Now I can still pick points if I need to. It'll give me the proper dimension between those, as well, or I can select two lines, so I can select this line and this line here, and it'll give me the…

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