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Continue and baseline - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Continue and baseline

- [Announcer] As usual, we're staying in the 04_dimensioning.dwg file for this particular chapter. And you can see where I did the QDIM command on our little object, here, in the previous video. Now I'm going to delete all of the dimensions that I've placed using the QDIM command like that. I'm just going to hit the delete key and get rid of those. And what I'm going to do now, is show you how to use 'continue' and 'baseline' in AutoCAD Dimensioning. Now these are on the 'annotate' tab in the 'dimensions' panel, so make sure you get to the 'annotate' tab on the ribbon. Now the first thing you need to do is place one linear dimension first. So we're going to look at 'continue first', and then we'll look at 'baseline' to see the difference. So that's on the pull-down there, linear. Make sure you got your 'object-snaps' on. Endpoint there, endpoint there, and there's my linear dimension. I then go here, to the 'dimensions' panel, and click on the fly-out and select 'continue'. Soon as I…

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