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Using dimension style standards in AutoCAD

Using dimension style standards in AutoCAD - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Developing CAD Standards

Using dimension style standards in AutoCAD

- [Instructor] Once again we're staying in our 02_VariousStandards.dwg file that you should've downloaded from the internet and obviously use to follow along with this particular video. Now, we're going to have a look now at another standard that is already built in to your AutoCAD. And that's your dimension styles. Now, in the previous video, we zoomed into that top left corner of the ground floor drawing. And as you can see there, you can see all of our dimensions sitting there quite nicely and neat and tidily in our AutoCAD drawing. Now again, you have standardized them by setting up a dimension style. Now the whole idea of this is you're making everything, as I said in previous videos, boringly consistent. I know that sounds crazy but it's true. You want everything to be that boringly consistent. So that everybody knows what they're looking for. Everybody knows what it looks like. Now, I'm going to zoom in on these dimensions a little bit more closely. Just roll up on the wheel a…

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