The arrows have been changed to obliques, the vertical alignment of the text has been centred and the current text style has been changed.
The dimension on the right has been drawn using a new style. The dimension line has arrow heads and the dimension text is positioned above the line and is drawn using the current text style. If you do not create a style of your own or modify the standard style, all dimensions will look like this. The one on the left is the default style known as STANDARD. Using a system similar to text styles, dimension styles allow you to design dimensions so that they look just the way you want them to.įor example, the illustration above shows two different dimension styles. AutoCAD dimensions are special blocks which can easily be edited or erased as necessary.ĪutoCAD provides lots of control over the way dimensions look. Dimensioning in AutoCAD is automatic lines, arrows and text are all taken care of by the dimension commands. If you just need to quickly find a description of the various dimension commands, click on the appropriate button on the QuickFind toolbar below.ĪutoCAD provides a whole range of dimensioning tools which can be used to quickly dimension any drawing without the need for measurement. The correct use of AutoCADs dimension tools is the key to producing clear and concise measured drawings.
Autocad r14 tutorial free how to#
This tutorial describes the options and commands available for dimensioning drawings and how to use them.
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