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Chapter 12 Dimensioning a Drawing

Dimensions are the final ingredients to include with your cabin drawing before composing your project onto individual sheets for plotting. To introduce you to dimensioning, I’ll follow a pattern similar to the one I used in Chapter 8, “Controlling Text in a Drawing.” You will first create a dimension style that contains the properties for the dimensions, and then you will add the dimensions themselves.

In this chapter, you will learn to

• Set up a dimension style
• Dimension the floor plan of the cabin
• Modify existing dimensions
• Set up a multileader style
• Modify existing dimension styles

Introducing Dimension Styles

Dimension styles are similar to text styles, but they give you more options to control. You ...