TABLE OF CONTENTS After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
Understand the importance of True Associative dimensioning
Create Linear, Continue and Baseline dimensions
Draw, Select and Erase objects
Use Grips to manipulate dimensions
Create a New dimension Style
Ignore Hatch Lines when dimensioning
Dimensioning is basically easy, but as always, there are many options to learn. As a result, I have divided the dimensioning process into multiple lessons.
In addition, Annotative dimensioning will be discussed in Lesson 27. So relax and just take it one lesson at a time.
In this Lesson you will learn how to create a dimension style and how to create Linear (horizontal and vertical) dimensions.
Dimensions can be Associative, Non-Associative or Exploded. You need to understand what these are so you may decide which setting you want to use. Most of the time you will use Associative but you may have reasons to also use Non-Associative and Exploded.
Associative Dimensioning means that the dimension is actually associated to the objects that they dimension. If you move the object, the dimension will move with it. If you change the size of the object, the dimension text value will change also. (Note: This is not parametric. In other words, you cannot change the dimension text value and expect the object to change. That would be parametric dimensioning)
Non-Associative means the dimension is not associated to the objects and will not change if the size of the object changes.
Exploded
