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Setting up an effective METRIC dimension style

Setting up an effective METRIC dimension style - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Setting up an effective METRIC dimension style

- [Instructor] Welcome once again to another tip and trick in my AutoCAD Tips and Tricks series. And we're gonna have a look now at creating an effective METRIC dimension style. Now it's a very simple drawing that we've got, it's a little gear wheel there. And the drawing is called DimstyleMETRIC.dwg. See the name of it there at the top of the screen. Download it, store it somewhere from the library, separate from the library so that you can use it over and over again. And open it up in AutoCAD. Now we're in the Model tab and Dimensions as you can see in the Layers panel there is the current drafting layout. Now we're gonna create an effective METRIC millimeters dimension style. Now you can do this in two ways. I can go to the Annotation flyout here on the Home tab, and click here to go to Dimension Style. Or I can co to the Annotate tab and click here to go to the Dimension Style. I don't mind which one, and what we're going to do is open up the Dimension Style Manager. Now you can…

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