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Machine Drawing with AutoCAD
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Machine Drawing with AutoCAD

by Goutam Pohit, Goutam Ghosh
September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 39m
English
Pearson India
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Appendix 5

Editing Dimensions

EDITING DIMENSIONS IN AutoCAD

We shall first start with typical situations where a need for change of dimension label arises.

Suppose there are three objects in your drawing with dimensions as shown in Fig. A5.1. To modify the dimensions do as follows.

 

FIG. A5.1   Need for editing dimensions

images

 

  1. Fig. A5.1a Change the overall sizes of the arrowheads and text heights or change arrows to tick or dot mark.
  2. Fig. A5.1b Change the position of the text “D” so that it does not cover the center line.
  3. Fig. A5.1c Change the font style or the text height as per requirement.

Editing the different components of a dimension ...

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