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Using Continue and Baseline

Using Continue and Baseline - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Continue and Baseline

- [Instructor] We're staying in our more dimensioning dot DWG file. And we're going to take a little look now at baseline dimensioning and continue, which is a great command for continuous dimensions as well. Now, what I'd like you to do is double click on the wheel to zoom extents, first of all and then pan upwards a little bit and zoom in on these grid lines at the bottom of our floor plan. The reason I want to do that is we've just got a nice clear space there where I can show you exactly what baseline and continue do. You'll find baseline and continue on the annotate tab on the ribbon. And you can see we've got continue there on the dimensions panel, continue and baseline. Now, before we do, either of those we're going to place one linear dimension. So I'm just going to hit escape a couple of times. And what I'm going to do is place a linear dimension first. So we go linear, like so. Now all I'm going to do is…

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