From the course: AutoCAD: 2D & 3D Elevations
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Dimensioning the plan and 2D elevation - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: 2D & 3D Elevations
Dimensioning the plan and 2D elevation
- [Instructor] We're staying in our 04_Elevations2D_House drawing, and I've left the drawing in exactly the same state as it was at the end of the previous video. We're in the Floor Plans 2D layout tab, and we were just checking out those two annotative dimensions that we placed that were following the 1:50 annotation scale. So what we're going to do now is we're going to jump back into the Model tab, and we're gonna finish dimensioning the plan and the 2D elevation. So I'm going to zoom out slightly now in the Model tab and place a few more dimensions on the plan. Again, we're dimensioning the walls, not the slabs, so make sure you get the red outlines and not the gray ones. So we'll place another dimension over here. Now just check that your annotation scale is 1:50 here. Always make sure that it's 1:50 at the moment to work with the 1:50 plan view viewport. So that's at 1:50, that's all good, so we click on the little triangle there just to switch off that menu. So again, in the…
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