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Measuring and labeling values on a model using dimensioning and notes

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Measuring and labeling values on a model using dimensioning and notes

In this video, we'll check out the drafting toolbar, which can be very handy when coordinating with third parties. The reason you may need to do this is that the other parties don't have access to 3D software, but they do require technical information about your design. Before I access the drafting toolbar, let's make sure our screen mode is set to Ghosted. So come up here, it's under display. I'm just going to right click to have all view ports ghosted, this will help quite a bit when we snap to curves and objects. So you probably remember me talking about never ever deleting curves. This is going to be a great example of why you shouldn't. We're going to need these curves to snap for our dimensioning. I'm going to go down to the O snaps here, and I've selected most of these. You don't need them all. But some are the basics are Point, Mid, Center, Intersection and probably Quadrant. We have a lot of curves, that will really help. Okay, let's start off with some dimensions by…

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