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Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with annotative dimensions in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another one of my tips and tricks from my AutoCAD tips and tricks series. We're gonna have a look now at annotative dimensions and using an annotative metric dimension style effectively in our AutoCAD drawing. So we've got a new drawing for you, it's called annotative dimensions, imaginatively enough. And you can download that from the library to follow along with the video. Now we're in the model tab right now and what we're going to do is make sure that we're using the right dimension style, the right layer, but more importantly the right annotation scale. So home tab on the ribbon first, into the layers panel, make sure that you are using the dimensions layer. Now you can select your dimension style from the annotation fly out here on the home tab, and there's the training dimension style there. If I click, I can select the appropriate style there. There's the training dimension style, that's the one we're going to use. Or I could go to the annotate tab…

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