From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2020
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From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2020
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- [Instructor] The whole point of drafting is to show someone how to build the object, and how to build it repeatedly, and consistently. To do this, the backbone of drafting is dimensioning. There are many rules for drafting dimensions. While I won't get into proper dimensioning technique here, I will explain how to use the tools that AutoCAD for Mac provides, so we can detail all the pieces of our drawings. To start, let's go over here to the Dimension panel. And I'm going to click on dimension style, found here. This opens up the Dimension Style Manager. Dimension styles preset all the variables available to a dimension, like text size, arrowheads, offsets, and so on. To create our own style, we're going to go up here, and click on the plus button. We're going to start with the standard text style and simply call this New Style, for now, and click Continue. Here, we can see the tabs for all the different components that…
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