- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor plan
dot DWG file and I've left it zoomed in,
in the same area that it was at the end of the last video.
Just double click on the wheel in the model space
to zoom to the extent of the visible drawn objects.
And we're going to zoom in on the bottom left area
of the drawing, so you might want to pan upwards a little bit
and then put the cross here over these dimensions here
and just zoom in a little.
Now I've deliberately made some errors
in my drafting for you.
Now, this is something that I often do
just to demonstrate dimension annotation,
some of the really fantastic tools
that are available in AutoCAD.
So once you've zoomed in,
make sure you go to the Annotate Tab
on the ribbon now as well.
'Cause we're going to be utilizing two really cool commands
which are Dim Space and Dim Break,.
They're up here on the dimensions panel.
So there is Dim Break, there and there's Dim Space there.
We're going to do the space one first.
So Dim Space is known as adjust space.
So when I click on adjust space
and come into the drawing area, you can see that
we've got three horizontal dimensions there.
The six, four, two, zero, the seven, five, zero, one
and the one, four, seven, zero, one dimensions
are obviously a little bit out to whack.
They're not spaced out properly.
The base dimension is going to be six, four, two, zero,
that one there.
And then the seven five, zero, one is the next one.
So you want to click on either the dimension line
or the dimension text, it doesn't matter which like say.
And then the last one is this one, four, seven, zero, one,
again dimension line or dimension text will select it.
Once you've got those three horizontal dimensions selected
press Enter.
Then it'll prompt you to enter a value
that you want to space them at
or you can use the auto option.
My suggestion is work to a known distance.
Sometimes auto will get them
a little bit too close together.
So I'm got to put a value in of two, five zero.
Now this is a metric millimeters drawing again,
so you might use a different value
if you're working in feet and inches for example.
I'm going to press Enter to finish and they space nicely.
Look at that.
They're all nicely spaced neatly now
and it looks a lot more accurate.
Obviously there are some other dimensions
crossing those dimensions as well.
And we do need to do a little bit of tidying up there too.
And we're going to do that as we work through
this particular chapter.
But you can see there
where the Dim Space has sorted that out.
Now, the other thing that we have got an issue with here
is our dimensions are crossing, can you see here?
So what we've got is we need to zoom in a little bit
just we can see what we're doing,
And what I want to do is,
I want to make sure that this two, seven, nine, one dimension
where it's crossing, actually has
some little bits of spacing and things going on
with the Dim Break, function.
First thing we're going to do though
is select this two, seven, nine, one
and just hover over that grip there and the menu appears.
You want to go to move text only.
And then you can move the text,
keep the polar tracking kicking in in if you want to,
that'll kind of keep it on the 45 degree
even though it isn't 45 degrees.
Can you see that?
It's slightly off.
It doesn't matter.
You just want to get that down here near that arrowhead
and click like that.
Now, if it does that, all you got to do is do an Undo,
'cause you've got it too close to the arrowhead.
So click on it again hover over the grid
and just move to the move text only.
You want it kind of there about there.
And you'll notice there
that it's kind of put a bit of a space in there as well.
So if that's the case, just hover again,
go to move text only and maybe move it up
a little bit as well and click there.
Hit Escape to deselect
and you can see that two, seven, nine, one
is kind of in the right place.
That's fine for now, you can tidy it up later.
What I'm worried about is this dimension line here
crossing these three linear dimensions.
So we're going to do Dim Break,
and we're going to do it on each of the linear dimensions.
It's so quick and easy to use.
So I'm going to go up to Dim Break, like say,
there it is there Dim Break, on the dimensions panel,
come into the drawing area and select the dimension
to add or remove the break.
So that's going to be the six, four, two, zero there.
Select that and then select the object
to break the dimension which is this one here
and you can see we've got a nice little break in there
like so.
Enter to finish.
We can just right click now and repeat the Dim Break,
and select the seven, five, zero, one,
select the object to break the dimension,
that's that aligned dimension there
and again you're putting a nice little break in,
Enter to finish, right click again, repeat Dim Break,
and you're going to select the one, four, seven, zero, one,
that one there, select the object to break,
that one there like so, Enter to finish.
And then if you now want to click on
your two, seven, nine, one again
and hover over that grip and go move text only.
You can maybe position this a little bit closer now,
maybe position it sort of about there.
You want to get in nice and tight though,
just position it there that works
and then hit Escape a couple of times to deselect.
Can you see how much neat to that looks now,
when you come out?
The linear dimensions all have a nice little break in them
and the aligned dimension here
coming around on the little sort of porch area,
actually has a nice dimension
that is easily readable as well.
So make sure you utilize that Dim Space and Dim Break,,
they're really, really easy to use.