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Automatic dimensioning - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Automatic dimensioning
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our MoreDimensioning.dwg file. What we're going to look at now is a thing called automatic dimensioning that's available in later versions of AutoCAD. And, you can find it using this dimension command here in the dimensions panel in the annotate tab on the AutoCAD ribbon. Now, it's very, very simple and all you've got to do is hover over the objects that you want to dimension. So, we're going to zoom in on the bottom left corner of the floor plan. Just zoom and pan like that and what I'm going to do, I'm going to use the automatic dimension command to dimension this wall here. So, all I've got to do is go to the dimension command, like so, and it's just D-I-M if you want to type it in, D-I-M and enter. And it creates multiple types of dimensions within a single command session. So, if I click there what I can do is I can just hover and can you see? It picks out the actual line. I click and it places the dimension. I then drag the dimensions…
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