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Setting annotation properties

Setting annotation properties - AutoCAD Mechanical Tutorial

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Setting annotation properties

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- [Narrator] We're going to take a look now at configuring your annotation and configuring your annotation standards, as well. Now for this, we've got a new drawing for you. Make sure you open up configure_annotation.dwg from the library and make sure you're in layout 1. And what we're going to do, we're going to take a look at how you can configure your annotation, as per the particular CAD standard that you're using in your AutoCAD mechanical tool set for a specific project, for example. Now we've got the drawing open. You can see in layout 1 there, we've got a valve plate, we've got a list of coordinates for the holes, we've got a hole table, and you can see the title block is all set up, as well. Now all of this dimension annotation, all of your hole numbering, everything else, that's all been set up because you've got your hole chart here, for example. Now, what you also need to think about is how this is all…

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