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Creating general dimension notations

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Creating general dimension notations

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to be creating general dimensions for this part you see on the screen. So, there's a couple of different methods for creating dimensions, but we're going to be using the main dimensioning command here, which is the Smart Dimension. Now directly below that you have a couple of different options. Down here you can choose either a horizontal dimension or a vertical dimension, or baseline, or ordinante, and so on, but the Smart Dimension pretty much figures all of that out for you, and chooses the right dimension based upon where you place it in context. So go ahead and choose Smart Dimension, and over here we're going to go ahead and choose maybe from one side of the part, so I'm going to click on this face right here and come all the way over to the other side of the part and click, and that's going to allow me to place the overall dimension. Pretty straight forward and easy there. Same thing over here, if I want to chose maybe from the bottom of…

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