From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
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Why use annotation? - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Effective Annotating
Why use annotation?
- [Instructor] So why do we use annotation in our AutoCAD drawings? Well as I said in the previous video we need it to communicate our design intent, that's the main reason, but what other reasons are there to use annotation in your AutoCAD drawings? Well we're still in the same drawing the 01_introtoannotation.dwg file and you'll notice I'm back in the model tab bottom left there of the drawing area. So in the model tab you do all your design work where it's normally one to one full size. Now this particular drawing is in metric millimeters. So you can see there on the left we have 300 metric millimeters. We have 150 and 100 at the top. So why do we use that annotation? Well the whole idea is we're communicating those values, those distances, those dimensions to the person that might manufacture this particular object. Now the thing is with AutoCAD it's such an accurate design tool that you can snap to all of the corners of this particular object utilizing your objects snaps. Now…
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