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310 Annotation: Setting up dimension-style families

310 Annotation: Setting up dimension-style families - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

310 Annotation: Setting up dimension-style families

- [Instructor] In this Tips and Tricks video we're going to be taking a look at how we can work with Dimension Style Families. Now we've got a drawing for you already. It's called 310 Dim Families.dwg. And as usual you can download it from the library to follow along with this particular Tips and Tricks video. Now it's a very simple AutoCAD drawing with a few dimensions on it. Saying see we already have some linear dimensions here like so and we've got an angular dimension in there as well. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to place some radial and diameter dimensions using the current dimension style. So you'll notice I'm on the objects layer there like so. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go to the circle command, circle center radius like so and I'm going to come into the drawing area. I'm going to utilize that midpoint there by hovering over it and then hover over this midpoint. And as I come in, I'll just use a…

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