AutoCAD 2018 and Inventor 2018 Tutorial By Tutorial Books (www.engbookspdf.com)

Part 1: AutoCAD Basics
Primary Units tab: Units Format – Decimal,
Precision – 0, Decimal separator – ‘.’period
In the Fit tab, ensure that the Annotative
check box is selected.
Open the Viewports-Example.dwg, if not
Click OK on the New Dimension Style
already opened.
dialog; you will notice that the Dim_Anno
Set the Dimensions layer as current.
style is listed in the Dimension Style
Type D in the command line and press
Manager. Also, the annotation symbol is
ENTER.
displayed next to it. This indicates that all
In the Dimension Style Manager, click the
dimensions created using this style will
New button.
have annotative property. Click on the
In the Create New Dimension Style dialog,
Close button.
enter New style name as Dim_Anno and
select the Annotative check box. Click
Continue.
Activate the Dimension tool and set the
Annotation Scale to 1:1. Click OK.
Create a linear dimension as shown below.
Set the following settings in the New
Dimension Style dialog.
Lines tab: Offset from origin-1.25
Symbols and Arrows tab: Arrow size -2.5,
Center Marks-Line.
Text tab: Text height – 2.5, Text placement -
Vertical-Centered, Text alignment -
Horizontal
Activate Automatically add scales to
annotative objects when the annotation
scale changes on the status bar.
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