AutoCAD: Working with Dimensions

Learn how to annotate technical drawings with dimensions styles, text, and multileaders block text.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Creating Dimensions

• Creating linear dimensions and adjusting their properties
• Baseline and continued linear dimensions
• Aligned and angular dimensions
• Radius, diameter and arc length dimensions

2. Dimension Styles

• Editing dimension styles
• Dimension style overrides
• Creating dimension substyles

3. Dimensioning Engineering Drawings

• Specifying lateral tolerances in dimension styles and objects
• Creating geometric tolerance objects
• Adding inspection parameters

4. Controlling Dimension Associativity

• Understanding the DIMASSOC system variable
• Exploding, monitoring, and reassociating dimensions

5. Fine-Tuning Dimensions

• Overriding dimension text
• Repositioning and reorienting dimension text
• Altering extension lines
• Spacing and breaking dimension objects

6. Labeling with Multileaders

• Making leaders
• Attaching blocks to leaders
• Styling multileaders

Conclusion

• Next steps