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Creating ordinate dimensions

Creating ordinate dimensions - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating ordinate dimensions

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- [Male Narrator] Hey guys. Let's learn about ordinate dimensions. Now, ordinate dimensions are a really quick way to add a whole bunch of dimensions in a very compact manner on your drawings. And to do that, let's go up here under the Smart Dimension tool, click on the twirl down, and come down here to Horizontal Ordinate Dimension. Click on that one there. Now, my very first click is got to be your baseline, where you want to start all your dimensions from. So, I'm going to choose this edge right here and then drag that down a little bit, which is going to be my zero mark, and there it is. Okay. Now, anything you want to add to this dimension, it's a chain dimension, so anything you want to add to it, you just click on it. It's pretty straightforward. So, if I want to add this hole here, just click on the hole, and it just adds it to the chain. This hole right here? Sure. This one up here? Sure. This edge…

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