AutoCAD Pocket Reference: For Release 2006, 2005 and 2004

QUICK DIMENSION

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Quick Dimension creates multiple dimensions with one command. Quick Dimension can create Continuous, Staggered, Baseline, Ordinate, Radius and Diameter dimensions. Qdim only works in modelspace. It is not trans-spatial.

  1. Select the Quick Dimension command using one of the following:

    TYPE = QDIM
    PULLDOWN = Dimension/Quick Dimension
    TOOLBAR = DIMENSION

    Command: _qdim
    Associative dimension priority = Endpoint
    Select geometry to dimension

    CONTINUOUS

  2. Select the objects to be dimensioned with a crossing window or pick each object

  3. Press to stop

  4. Specify dimension line position, or [Continuous/Staggered/Baseline/Ordinate/Radius/Diameter/datumPoint/Edit/settings] : Select "C" for Continuous.

  5. Select the location of the dimension line.

BASELINE

2. Select the objects to be dimensioned with a crossing window or pick each object.

3. Press to stop

4. Specify dimension line position, or [Continuous/Staggered/Baseline/Ordinate/Radius/Diameter/datumPoint/Edit/settings] : Select "B" for Baseline.

5. Select the location of the dimension line.

STAGGERED

2. Select the objects to be dimensioned with a crossing window or pick each object.

3. Press to stop

4. Specify dimension line position, or [Continuous/Staggered/Baseline/Ordinate/Radius/Diameter/datumPoint/Edit/settings] : Select "S" for Staggered.

5. Select the location of the dimension line.

DIAMETER

2. Select the objects to be dimensioned with a crossing window or pick each object (Qdim will automatically filter out any linear dims)

3. Press to stop.

4. Specify dimension line position, or [Continuous/Staggered/Baseline/Ordinate/Radius/Diameter/datumPoint/Edit/settings] : Select "D" for Diameter

5. Select the location of the dimension line.
(Dimension line length is...

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