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Setting up a metric dimension style

Setting up a metric dimension style - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting up a metric dimension style

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- [Instructor] Welcome again to the world of AutoCAD Tips and Tricks, where we're going to be taking you through another tip and trick to make you more productive and more effective in your AutoCAD workplace. We've got a new drawing for you. It's ANNOTATION_MetricDimStyle.dwg. And you can download that from the website as usual to follow along with the Tip and Trick video. Now, as normal, my Tips and Tricks drawing titles tend to give away what we're going to cover, so we're going to look at annotation and creating a metric dimension style. This is a metric drawing, so all of the measurements and dimensions are in metric millimeters. And we're going to create a metric dimension style utilizing one of the existing text styles that we've already got in the drawing. So we're going to zoom in on the top left corner here so that we can see some dimensions. Maybe pan down a bit like that. And you can see there we've got the grids J, I, H, and G, and there's some dimensions there. And you…

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