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Creating general dimension notations

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Creating general dimension notations

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- [Instructor] General dimensions can be added to your part or drawing view inside of SOLIDWORKS pretty straightforward and easily, by clicking on the Annotation toolbar, and come over here to Smart Dimension. Now, directly below smart dimension, here, are a whole bunch of other ways we can add dimensions. But Smart Dimension generally picks the best dimension possible, instead of having to choose individual-like horizontal-vertical dimensions, and so on, this Smart Dimension will do most of that for us. Go ahead and choose that one, there. Now we have to choose which face of our part is our datum. Which one is going to start all of our dimensions? So in this case, here, I can choose either this face here, or this one over here. Now, this one over here makes more sense to me, so I'm going to start there, and I'm going to start dimensioning to certain things. So if I choose, this first hole, I've got a dimension…

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