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Using annotative dimensions

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Using annotative dimensions

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- [Voiceover] We're now going to look at working with some annotative dimensioning as well. In the previous video, we looked at annotative text styles. We're now going to look at annotative dimension styles. Now you'll notice I'm in the Stair A layout tab, and you can see that what I've done is I've frozen the viewport layers. That includes the dimension layers. So I'm going to go to the Home tab on the ribbon and go into the Layers panel here. Make sure that you select the layer DIMS that I've created for you. The actual annotation ones here, A-ANNO-DIMS and A-ANNO-DIMS-100 are actually frozen off in the current viewport. So just hit Escape there, just to deselect the layer settings like so. Now the reason I've done that is we are going to dimension in here. We're going to put a little dimension there to dimension the hand rail, but it's going to be annotative. So if I go back to the Model tab now, and zoom in on the staircase here, like so. Get in nice and tight on the staircase…

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