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Creating general dimensions

Creating general dimensions - Inventor Tutorial

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Creating general dimensions

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- [Narrator] Now that you understand how to create drawing sheets and drawing views, let's take a moment to look at how we can begin adding dimensions to our drawings. On the screen I have an engine block dimensions drawing that we're going to use for this exercise. To begin creating dimensions, we need to go to the annotate tab. Within the annotate tab, you have all the things that you're gonna need in order to create information on this drawing such as dimensions, feature notes, text, symbols and other items. Dimensions within drawings work in almost exactly the same fashion as dimensions within the sketch environment with one minor difference, in the sketch environment, you're creating dimensions to drive the size of the model, in the drawing you're actually creating dimensions to provide the information about manufacturing. Those types of dimensions are not always gonna be the same. The one thing that's different about dimensions in drawings is that they need to be much more…

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