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Using annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

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Using annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our New Metal Plate.dwg file. And we're going to take a look now at placing some annotative dimensions in our drawing. Now, we've already got dimensions in there and they're already annotative. How do you tell that? You just hover over a dimension. Can you see the little triangle symbol there? Like we had with the annotative text, you can see that that lets me know that I'm using an annotative dimension style. Now, make sure that you are using the Dimensions layer as your current layer, or, go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon, Dimensions panel, and make sure that your DIMLAYER override is set to Dimensions. Doesn't matter because if you're using the DIMLAYER override, the dimensions will go on the dimensions layer anyway, like they should. Now, we are going to place some annotative dimensions. Make sure you are using an annotative dimension style. Again, it's on the Dimensions panel. See Training ANNO there? It's got the blue symbol, letting you know…

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