From the course: Learning CATIA v5
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Dimensions
- [Instructor] Now that we have our views in place, we're going to start placing some dimensions. Now, in the dimensioning toolbar, go ahead and pull this out, get rid of my projections. What you'll see is you have several tools available to you. Typically, the one you want to use the most is going to be Dimensions, the first one. By double-clicking on it, the first thing I want you to notice is a Tools palette pops up. This is similar to the Sketch tools toolbar in that this is going to drive what you pick, how you pick, orientation of a dimension, pretty important to pay attention to this. And now when I come in, I'm going to go ahead and pick this edge, and I'm going to measure all the way over to this edge. By picking those too edges, you'll notice on the Tools palette, I have what's called Force Dimension on Element. Basically, it's forcing a dimension between those two elements. I can pick a line if I want to have a line that's drawn at an off-angle or slightly off-kilter, maybe…
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