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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 your drawing view inside of SolidWorks, pretty straightforward and easily by clicking on the annotation tool bar 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. So 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 could choose either this face here or this one over here. Now this one over here it 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 like this first hole, I've got a dimension…

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