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Referencing dimensions

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Referencing dimensions

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- [Instructor] Let's create another rectangle. This time we'll go back to the sensor rectangle tool. I know we're working a lot with rectangles, but that's just because this particular design has a lot of rectangles in it. We're going to move on to more shapes in upcoming designs. So, we're going to just draw our rectangle here and I'm going to show you a different way to dimension. This time with d4 dimension. Click on this line and instead of adding a dimension, we're going to reference it. We're going to say, I want that dimension to equal this dimension here. Notice how this says d16. Well that's because this is our 16th dimension. And now if I hit enter, it's going to say fx 1. So this dimension is a function of d16, which equals one. I'm going to do the same thing for the sides. In this, I'm going to click on this dimension and then instead of giving it a number, I'm going to click on this side dimension here, d17 and hit enter. That's a function of that. Okay, wait. Why this is…

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