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Using Continue and Baseline to enhance your AutoCAD dimension annotation

Using Continue and Baseline to enhance your AutoCAD dimension annotation - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Continue and Baseline to enhance your AutoCAD dimension annotation

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Ground Floor Plan.dwg file. What I'm going to do now is double click on the wheel just to zoom extent so that we can see what we're doing. There you go, like so. Now we're going to be taking a look at the continue and baseline tools that you can utilize when you're placing your dimension annotation in your drawings. Now before we do that, I need you to zoom in so that you can see a certain part of the drawing. So pan down and zoom in a bit. You need to be able to see from this corner of the building here to this corner of the building here. Make sure as well, on your dimensions panel, on the annotate tab on the ribbon, that your dim layer override is set to dimensions because you will be placing some linear dimensions. Now on the dimensions panel, continue and baseline is here on this flyout here. So what we need to do first though, is place a linear dimension. So I'm going to click here, dimension type, linear. Using my object snaps…

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