From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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Dimensioning simple designs - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Dimensioning simple designs
- [Instructor] We're staying in our Annotation.dwg file, and you can see that we've got our notes and our bolting plate plan text there. And what we did in the previous video was set up a dimension style to allow us to start adding dimensions to our bolting plate to communicate our design intent. Now there's a couple of little settings that I want you to set up first before you start dimensioning. So in your Layers panel in the Home tab on the ribbon, make sure that you place your dimensions on the Dimensions layer. It's always good to make sure that the relevant objects are on the relevant layer. Now, have a look at the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Can you see it says 1 to 1 there? And if you click on that little fly-out arrow there's all these different scales available to you. Now this particular scale that we're looking at is your annotation scale in the model space. I want you to leave it set as 1 to 1. Now there's a reason for that, and you'll find out more about that…
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