Chapter 8
Dimensioning
8-1 Introduction
Adding dimensions to a drawing can be time-consuming, but dimensions are the most important part of any drawing because they are what is used to build the object being drawn. All the graphical elements are simply visual tools to help in reading the dimensions. AutoCAD provides a number of dimension types and enables users to document practically any component of an object. Figure 8-1 shows examples of the many dimension types you can create.
Figure 8-1
This chapter introduces the Dimensions panel of the Annotate tab (Figure 8-2). The chapter first explains dimensioning terminology and conventions ...
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