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Dimensions and dimension styles

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Dimensions and dimension styles

- [Instructor] So once again, we're staying in our 02_AnnotativeObjects.dwg file, and we're looking at objects that can be annotatively scaled. Now this time, we're going to look at dimensions and dimension styles. Now I'm in the model tab again of our drawing, and you can see there we've got our blocks, we've got our text, we've got our multiline texts, and you can see there the hatching if I hover over it, and click on it, is annotative as well. So we're trying to make everything as annotative as possible so that we can utilize our annotation scale in the model tab and then align that with our viewport scales in our layout tab in the drawing. Now, if I hover over one of these dimensions here, can you see it tells me it's a dimension, some of the layer dims, but there's no annotation symbol. If I hover over this dimension here though, there is an annotation symbol. So what it tells me is this dimension here is using an annotation scale. This dimension here is not. So how does that…

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