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Using dimensions

Using dimensions - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using dimensions

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- [Voiceover] So let's have a look now at using dimensions in a drawing. Now we're staying in the "09_Dimensioning.dwg" file. You may have saved that locally on your machine to follow along with the videos. What I'm going to do first and foremost is I'm staying in the zoomed view I was in in the previous video where we can see that top-left corner. You can see there's two dimensions there, 3532 and 1830. Select this dimension here and select this dimension here. And I'd like you to delete them, so just hit the delete key or use the erase command. We're going to dimension those two dimensions again. So just pan and zoom so you've got it nice and central on the screen. Now i'm going to zoom in on the doors first. I'm zooming in purely for clarity, because i'm not working at very high resolution for the videos. Obviously I have to do that, it's just the way it is with the way that we use the recording software. But obviously what we're going to do there is zoom in on these doors and I'm…

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