- We're staying in our new metal plate dot DWG file.
And in the previous video
we placed our annotative text for our side view label here.
We're now going to place some annotative dimensions.
Now, what I've already done in this drawing
for you is set up an annotative dimension style.
We've also got our dimensions layer
in place, in the drawing as well.
So I don't need to worry too much
about creating a dimension style.
We've already talked about it previously
in the course, anyway
I just want to dive a bit deeper
into the actual techniques that you use
to place your annotative dimensions in a drawing.
So we are looking at the section view
and the side view so in our layout tab,
sections and elevations down here,
our view port here, should have a scale.
So when we click on it, you can see it's 1-2.
So our head escape to deselect
and I'll come back into the model tab.
We need to make sure
that when we're placing annotative dimensions
they adhere to the view ports scale.
So our annotation scale here should also be 1-2.
It was already, for the side view label here
that we created earlier.
So our annotation scale is where it should be.
We need to make sure that we are using the right layer.
Remember, try and get the right layer first time.
So there's our dimensions layer there.
Now, we're going to place some annotative dimensions.
Before we do that, though, I'm going to go to the annotate tab.
Now I always tend to use the dimensions panel
on the annotate tab when I'm placing dimensions.
For two reasons mainly, one
I can see what dimensions style I'm using
which is the training ANNO dimensions style.
You need to select that
and make sure it's the current dimension style.
And more importantly, in later versions of AutoCAD
you've got this wonderful tool here
which is the Dim Layer Override.
So I can select dimensions there on that dropdown
and it overrides any other current drafting layer
that might be in the drawing.
So in the Home Tab here,
I might not have set it to dimensions.
It could be another layer, it is dimensions
which is fine, but in the Annotate Tab
I can override that here, which is great.
I can also get access to everything like my dimension styles
and all the other dimension editing tools.
We're just going to place
two very simple annotative dimensions.
So I'm going to go to the dropdown here
and select the linear dimension type.
And I'm literally going to click here,
endpoint snap to endpoint snap
and there's the width of our metal play.
I'll just drag that out a little bit to the left and click.
Now, how do I know that that is an annotative dimension?
I hover over it.
And can you see the little annotative symbol
there that pops up near the cross?
So I know it's annotative.
More importantly I could just click on it,
Right click and go to properties on the shortcut menu.
And it tells me here in the miscellaneous panel
DimStyle is training ANNO, yes, it's annotative
and it's using the Annotative scale of 1-2
which we've set down here on the status bar.
I can close the properties pallet hit escape to
deselect one last linear dimension to place.
So I click on the fly out again here, click on linear.
And I'll go from the end point here again.
So make you get the endpoint snap.
You might not, you might get a node
which is the origin point of that little 15 dimension there.
The node is fine and then we'll go over
to the endpoint here, click again
and drag down a little bit to place our 500 dimension.
Again, if I hover over that, you can see it's
annotative with the little annotative symbol.
If I select it, right click, properties
on the shortcut menu. Again, it's using training
ANNO, it's annotative and it's using
the annotative scale of 1-2.
If I hit escape now, just to deselect those
and jump back to my sections and elevations layout
you can see there's my 15 dimension
and my 500 dimension combined
with my new side view label as well.
But the good thing is because
I'm doing this all using annotative scaling
you can see that all my dimensions and text
are consistent in the view port it's the same
in the plan view view port as well.
Everything is consistent.
You'll notice the dimensions and the text
are all the same as the other layout,
the sections and elevations layout.
Let's jump back into the model tab now so
that we can do some more work and
you can see how quick and easy it is there
to utilize your annotative scaling both
for dimensions in this case, and
in the previous video for our annotative text.