From the course: AutoCAD 2022 Essential Training
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Breaking and spacing dimensions - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2022 Essential Training
Breaking and spacing dimensions
- [Instructor] We're staying in our moreDimensioning.dwg file. And I've left it in the same state as I asked you to leave it at the end of the last video. So you've got your baseline dimensions in place at the bottom of the floor plan there, and you're zoomed into them as well. So you can see them reasonably clearly. We're also working out of the annotate tab on the ribbon as well. Now you'll notice the dimensions are automatically going on to the appropriate layer as because we're using our dim layer override here. So it should be set to A-010-D_DIM layer, as you can see. Now what I'd like you to do is just zoom in a bit closer on this bottom left corner. I'm going to show you how to utilize what they call break and space in your dimensioning tool set. Now these are up on the dimensions panel. So there's break there and there's space there, okay? They're called DIMBREAK and DIMSPACE, if you want to type the commands in.…
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