From the course: AutoCAD 2021 Essential Training
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Continue and baseline dimensions - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2021 Essential Training
Continue and baseline dimensions
- [Instructor] We're staying in our MoreDimensioning.dwg file, and we're still doing dimensioning techniques here and I want to show you two more that are very, very useful, and how you can adjust your dimensioning to suit them as well. And they are baseline and continue. Now, we're going to go to the Annotate tab on the ribbon first, and you'll see Baseline and Continue are there on the Dimensions panel. Now, before we use them we're going to zoom out slightly, and we're going to make sure that we can see all of our grid lines going across the top of our drawing like that. So do a zoom and a pan to make sure you can see what's going on. Then what we're going to do is we're going to add some dimensions using the Continue command. That's on the Dimensions panel here, on the Annotate tab on the ribbon. So click on the flyout there and select Continue. You're now going to select a continued dimension. So I'm going to…
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