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Annotation: Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

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Annotation: Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. Today, we're going to be looking at annotation in your AutoCAD designs, and more specifically, we're going to be looking at annotative dimensioning in your AutoCAD drawings. We have a drawing for you to download from the library to follow along with the tips and tricks video, it's called 199_ANNOTATION, and then Anno Dimensions.dwg. If you look at the title bar at the top of the AutoCAD screen, you can see the filename there, it's a bit easier to look at it and then download that file and use it accordingly to follow along with the video. Now, once you've got the drawing open, make sure you're in the Model tab. So, you can see we've got a layout there with some nice red dimensions. All of these dimensions are annotative, and the way that you can tell that is just by hovering over them. I hover over that 1600 dimension, can you see that? I've got a little sort of triangular symbol there showing, that indicates that it's using…

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