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Using dimensions

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- [Speaker] Another thing you can when you're annotating your drawings is add dimensions. So we're staying in our Annotating_HOUSE.dwg file and as per the previous video, you can still see the text that we placed in previous video. So I'm going to zoom out a bit now and I'm going to pan and I'm going to look at this top left part of the house where you can see the windows there on the corner of the building. What I'm going to do is in the Layers panel, I'm going to click on the Layer dropdown here and start using the Dimensions layer to make sure that we're using the right layer for the right objects in the drawing. In the Home tab on the riven, I'm going to go to the Annotation panel and click on the flyer again and I'm going to make sure that I'm using the Architectural dimension style. Now there are a number of them there, make sure you use Architectural, that's the one I'd like you to use for this particular video. Now you can see there I had a little blue symbol next to it, that…

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