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Isometric dimension styles

Isometric dimension styles - AutoCAD Plant 3D Tutorial

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Isometric dimension styles

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- [Instructor] Just like your annotations, Plant 3D comes with some pre-defined dimension styles that you can apply to your iso theme. Let's see what we have in the out-of-the-box settings and then we'll make a few changes. Let's start by going to our Home tab, Project Manager, and take a look at our Project Setup. Under Isometric Drawing Settings, we're going to come down to the Dimensions tab. Now again, make sure you're working in the LinkedIn Style and you're not making modifications to one of your other iso styles. So we have a number of ways that we can dimension objects based on, again, this is going to be based on your client requirements. For example, if we're dealing with valves, we have a list that we can setup here. If we're dealing with butt welded valves, the default out-of-the-box is that we dimension from the center of the valve. We have the option of dimensioning the length or just to the ends. Same with threaded connections. The valve is dimensioned to center and…

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