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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 14

Entering New Dimensions

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Placing dimensions in drawings

Bullet Choosing a dimensioning method

Bullet Creating and modifying your own dimension styles

Bullet Adjusting dimension sizes to suit the drawing plot scale

Bullet Placing and modifying annotative dimensions, including details at other scales

Bullet Modifying dimensions

In drafting, whether CAD or manual, dimensions clearly indicate the size of things. They are special text labels with attached lines that point to what is being dimensioned. Although it’s theoretically possible to draw all the pieces of a dimension by using AutoCAD commands such as Line and mText, dimensioning is such a common drafting task that AutoCAD provides specific commands to do the job efficiently. These dimensioning commands place all parts of a dimension into a convenient, easy-to-edit package, much like a block. In fact, AutoCAD actually produces each dimension ...

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