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Using Continue and Baseline

Using Continue and Baseline - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Continue and Baseline

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- [Instructor] We're staying out MoreDimensioning.dwg file, and we're going to have a look now at using Continue and Baseline when we're dimensioning in our AutoCAD drawings. You'll notice again I've done a zoom extents on the drawing, that's just a double-click on the wheel to zoom out and take stock of the AutoCAD drawing that you're working in. Now, what I'm going to do is utilize our named views. So I'm going to go to top here in the drawing area, hover over Custom Model Views, and go to Reception. Now be aware that sometimes this does change the layer that you're using and that you're on. But the good thing is, if you go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon, you'll notice in the Dimensions panel you've got a Dimension Layer Override. So make sure you're using A-ANNO-DIMS, that one there, okay? And what we're going to do is we're going to look at Continue first, and that allows us to create a continuous string of dimensions in our AutoCAD drawing. But you need to place a linear…

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