- [Tutor] We're staying in our Ground Floor Plan .dwg file.
And in the previous video
we looked at DIMSPACE and DIMBREAK.
And you can still see those nicely tidied up dimensions
just there, in the view where we are now.
Double click on the wheel of the mouse
to perform a zoom extent,
to zoom to the extents of the visible drawn objects.
Now, if you look up here at the top, just pan down slightly,
can you see we ideally need a string of dimensions going
along the top here, don't we?
To measure out all these gaps and these walls and so on.
So we need some external dimensions going
across the top there.
What we're going to do is we're going
to utilize a thing called Continue,
in our Dimensions Panel here on the Annotate Tab,
on the ribbon.
There's Continue there, and there's Baseline as well.
Now, before we do Continue and Baseline though,
it's always a good idea to do the first linear dimension.
So make sure that you are using the Architectural
Millimeters dimension style.
There it is there, Architectural Millimeters.
and also utilize your dim layer override here as well
and make sure that dimensions is the layer that you're using
for your dim layer override.
Now, the reason I suggest that is obviously
your current drafting layer
in your home tab on the ribbon might be different.
But if you use dim layer override
your dimensions always go on the dimensions layer.
So I'm going to zoom in a little now just a bit like that
and just bring that view down
so that you can see all the way
from this vertical wall on the left
to this little vertical outstand wall here.
And then I'm going to create one linear dimension.
So click on the fly out there.
My linear dimension type is there.
And I'm just going to use my object snap and go left click,
and left click on each endpoint
and place my dimension there like so.
Now just be aware I am using down here
an annotation scale of 1-30.
Make sure that you are using that scale as well.
So on your fly out there, you should be using 1-30,
that's really important.
If you haven't got that scale,
you might need to utilize Custom here
and jump in here and create a new one.
So you just click on Add, put the name 1:30.
Paper units will be 1, drawing units will be 30.
I'll click on Cancel and cancel there.
But you should have the 1-30 in there already.
If you don't, that's how you do it.
You go to Custom on the drop down there.
Now I've placed that particular linear dimension.
I'm then going to go to here to my fly out and select Continue.
And can you see, it comes off of
the last linear dimension I placed.
So all I've got to do now is click on each
of these endpoint snaps as I go along
and it's placing a lovely continuous string
of dimensions for me, like so.
Make sure you get that endpoint.
You might want to zoom in a bit there.
Just hover, there's the endpoint there.
Left click, roll back on the wheel to zoom out again.
And then just make sure you can see where you're going.
So I'm coming down here to this one, and then here.
And then last but not least if you need to zoom in
to get that endpoint again it's there.
And then zooming and panning.
And just zoom in a bit, there we go, there's our dimensions.
And we can go right off the end here.
I'm not going to, I'm going to press Enter once
that finishes that string of continuous dimensions.
And then what I might do there is press Enter again
because it's prompting me
to select another continued dimension there.
So what I can do is just press Enter
and that closes the command.
Now, the benefit with that Continue command
is these are individual linear dimensions,
as you can see, like so, really useful.
So what I'm going to do is zoom out slightly
and you can see I've got a perfect string of dimensions.
Just like these ones down the side here.
Very quick and easy.
I'm going to do a same thing now with the baseline setting.
That's on the same fly out menu, there's Baseline there.
But again,
make sure that you place a linear dimension first,
'cause baseline also comes off of a linear dimension.
So I'll just hit Escape there
and zoom in on this bottom left corner.
I'm going to place another linear dimension.
So there's the fly out and linear.
I'm going to go endpoint, you might want to just hover there
a little bit over that line
and then go to that endpoint there
drag your dimension out a little bit to say there, like so.
So there's my little linear dimension there.
Now again, just do a little bit of zooming and panning
to make sure that you can see everything.
I haven't got much screen real estate,
when I record these videos for you,
my resolution's quite low.
So you can see there that there's our linear dimension.
And what I'm going to do,
I'm going to utilize the end point snap
just like I did for this string of dimensions here
but using the Baseline Tool.
So when I click on Baseline now,
can you see it's coming off of that last dimension I placed.
And what I'm doing now is the same thing,
endpoint snap, endpoint snap.
Just keep clicking on each of the openings
until I get to that top endpoint there
get the endpoint there, zoom out a bit
and you can see I set a load of baseline dimensions there.
Press Enter once,
that finishes that particular baseline string of dimensions.
It's prompting me, do I want to do another base dimension?
I don't, so I press Enter just to close the command.
And you can see there now
that I've got a group of baseline dimensions
all coming off of that extension line
of that original linear dimension I placed.
And again, they are individual dimensions.
So I can, if I want to,
erase the dimensions that I might not need.
So that's using Continue and Baseline
to edit your dimension annotation in your AutoCAD drawing.