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- [Voiceover] As usual, we're staying in the 09_Dimensioning.dwg file and what we're going to look at this time is what they call Continuous or Continue Dimensions in AutoCAD. Now if I just zoom out, we're staying in the same office view, by the way you notice, but I'm going to zoom out first, now I'm just going to zoom out, can you look here, can you see all these dimensions all line up nice and neatly? Those are known as Continue or Continuous Dimensions in AutoCAD and what they allow me to do is obviously space things equally like window openings, door openings, and you can space off of grid lines. Now I'm gonna go back to the office view so I'll click on the top here, Custom Model Views and go to the office view, takes me straight there rather than messing around zooming in and out. And I'm just gonna pan upwards a little bit. Now you can see the dimensions that we spaced previously, so there's the 1140, the 2360, and the 2890. I'm going to place a group of continuous dimensions…

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