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Using the DIMBREAK command

Using the DIMBREAK command - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the DIMBREAK command

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick, and what we're going to look at is some of the annotate tools that are available to you in AutoCAD. So you notice we've got a new drawing open that you can download from the website. It's ANNOTATE_DIMBREAKCommand. And what we're going to look at is the DIMBREAK Command that allows you to break dimensions and actually make them look tiny and more professional on your AutoCAD drawings. Now, you'll notice we've got the drawing open, we're in the model space, and you can see all of the dimensions there in the nice red color that makes them stand out. So we're going to zoom into this top left corner. So just zoom in using the wheel on the mouse, and you can see that some of these dimensions are crossing grid lines for example. So we've got the 3532 there, you can see it's crossing that grid line there. We've got the 4078 there that's crossing that grid line there. We've got the 1840 that's crossing that grid line there. Now that kind…

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