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Working with dimension styles

Working with dimension styles - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with dimension styles

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- [Voiceover] We're now in another section of our AutoCAD 2017 Essentials Course. We're now going to look at dimensioning. In the previous section, we looked at text. Now we're looking at dimensioning, which is the other part of annotating your AutoCAD drawings. We're back in that good old building drawing again, and you can see there that we've got the grid lines. We've got the dimension lines. They're all in red on the drawing. You'll notice we've obviously already got dimensioning on this particular drawing, and that's the reason why I want to use this drawing. It means we've already got an existing dimension style. We talked about text styles in the previous videos, when we looked at text. Dimension styles have a similar method of setting up the styles to use within your drawing. What I'd like you to do is zoom in on the top left corner of the drawing. We've got no named views for this. Just put your cross hair here, zoom in, so that you can see those dimensions in the top left…

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