Creating general dimensions

…Now that we know how to create drawing…views, we can look at beginning to annotate our…drawing by adding dimensions and text and other information…required to explain how this part should be manufactured.…You can see on the screen, I have engineblockdimension.idw open, which is…just a starting file we can use to begin playing with dimensions.…And dimensions at this point, should be fairly familiar to you.…Because the dimensioning tool in the drawing environment is nearly…identical to the one that you use in the sketching environment.…

With one or two minor exceptions.…To begin, we'll go to the Annotate tab.…And you can see, within the Annotate tab, we have dimensions, feature notes,…text, symbols, and other items that are…important to creating annotations within a drawing.…We're going to be focusing on the general dimension tool.…It can be found here in the upper…left-hand corner of the screen under the dimension panel.…Or, by right-clicking and selecting General Dimension from the marking.…I'm going to scroll the wheel on my mouse to zoom in so that we can…