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The annotation tool - Vectorworks Tutorial
From the course: Learning Vectorworks
The annotation tool
- [Narrator] A set of construction drawings are meant to provide information for builders. We have a number of tools to annotate and present information on our drawings. We'll take a look at the more common tools. First, let's look at dimensioning. So on the left side of our screen, we're going to go to our tool sets, and make sure that we are in the Dims/Notes. So let's go up to the very top option here. We have Constrained Linear Dimension Tool. Make that active. And here, we can have different modes. The first one is Constrained Linear Mode. Let's go ahead and use that, and then let's make sure that we have the right dimension standards. For now, we'll just use architecture, or architectural. So what we'll do is measure the length of the tabletop. Let's click on the upper-left corner, or snap to the side anyway. Remember it's fill it in. So we're going to click on that first far end, and then click on the other side. And now we can drag this up or down. But let's just position this…
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