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Automatic dimensioning

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We're staying in our GroundFloorPlan.dwg file, and did you know there's a tool in AutoCAD that automatically dimensions your drawings for you? It's this one here on the Dimensions panel in the Annotate tab on the Ribbon, and it's this one here, Dimension, with the little sun symbol and the dimension above it. Now the good thing is I can be working in the Home tab as well, and it's also here on the Annotation panel as well. there's dimension there just be careful though if you're working here in the annotation panel on the home tab on the ribbon make sure your current drafting layer is set to your dimensioning layer if you're working in the annotate tab you can cheat and use dim layer override and set it to dimension so it's automatically using the dimensions layer I tend to work from the annotate tab when I'm dimensioning anyway just gives me a bit more control over everything that I need it's all in one place in that dimensions panel. So I'm going to click here on the dimension tool…

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