From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2021)
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Dimension styles - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2021)
Dimension styles
- [Instructor] We're staying in our annotation.dwg file and in the previous video, as you can see on the screen, we created some single line text, and some multi line text based around our labels, text style, and the text layer that we created. We're now going to do that with dimension annotation, which does work subtly differently to the text annotation. So we need to create a dimension style and a dimensions layer. Now there is already a dimensions layer available in this particular drawing. But I want you to create a new one, I want you to get into the habit of creating a new layer for text, new layer for dimensions. So we go to the Home tab on the ribbon. And first of all, we click on layer properties in the Layers panel. And what we do then is we click on new layer here like so. And our new layer this time will be dimensions again, I'm putting it in caps. So it stands out, there's dimensions. And it should remember…
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