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Creating and using dimension styles

Creating and using dimension styles - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Creating and using dimension styles

We're staying in our metal plate underscore 002.dwg file and what we're going to take a look at now is creating a dimension style for any dimension annotation that we might want to place on our drawing. Now I'm back in the model tab of the drawing as well notice the model tab here and what I'm going to do is just show you a couple of little things that you need to remember when you're creating styles and adding annotation to drawings. I'm currently in the annotate tab on the ribbon and in the dimensions panel here you've got your dim layer override. It's always a good idea to have that set to your dimensions layer like so and then when you're dimensioning your dimensions automatically go on to the dimensions layer and not the current drafting layer which at the moment you can see there in my quick access toolbar is title text. Also, talking of text, if you expand the text panel here and pin it open, you'll notice there is a text layer override as well. So it might be worth setting…

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