AutoCAD: Annotative Dimensions, Dimension Styles, and Dimension Families

Course details

With so many AutoCAD users around the world, it’s essential to know how to wield the built-in power of annotative dimensions. As an architect, engineer, or building and construction management professional, annotative dimensions allow you to place dimension annotation at varying scales in your layout viewports to ensure that your designs are effectively communicated to the contractor on the job site, the production team on the factory floor, or the interior designer at the office.

In this course, join Autodesk Certified Instructor and Autodesk Expert Elite Shaun Bryant to learn more about why design communication is imperative for all AutoCAD users. Explore the fundamentals of annotative dimensioning along with the associated styles and families to build your AutoCAD skill set. As you progress through the course, Shaun shows you how to take advantage of cool, easy-to-use dimensioning tricks, such as working with overrides, deleting and purging styles and families, utilizing geometry, and creating annotative dimensions with active layout viewports.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Using AutoCAD to dimension and annotate your drawings
02 - Working with dimension annotation
03 - What are dimension styles and dimension style families
04 - Other AutoCAD courses in the library
05 - Using the exercise files
06 - Dimensioning with the AutoCAD interface

1. Dimension Annotation - An Overview

07 - Creating a new dimension annotation layer and using the dimension layer override
08 - Using the dimension tool (DIM)
09 - Using Linear, Aligned, and Angular dimensions
10 - Using Arc Length, Radius, and Diameter dimensions
11 - Using Jogged Radius and Ordinate dimensions
12 - Using the Quick Dimension tool (QDIM)
13 - Using Baseline and Continued
14 - Adding jog lines to linear and aligned dimensions
15 - Adding Center Marks and Centerlines for easy dimensioning

2. Dimension Styles - Regular and Annotative

16 - Creating a regular dimension style
17 - Adding dimensions using a new dimension style
18 - Creating an annotative dimension style
19 - Adding annotative dimensions to a drawing
20 - Converting a regular dimension to an annotative dimension
21 - Adding an annotative object scale to dimensions
22 - Altering the visibility of annotative dimensions in layout viewports

3. Editing Dimension Annotation

23 - Using grips to edit dimensions
24 - Editing dimension text
25 - Using dimension text overrides
26 - Using DIMBREAK and DIMSPACE
27 - Updating and reassociating dimension annotation
28 - Working with other dimensioning tools on the Dimensions ribbon panel

4. Dimension Style Families

29 - Creating dimension style sub-styles (families)
30 - Working with dimension style overrides
31 - Deleting and purging dimension styles and families

5. Cool Dimensioning Tricks

32 - Dimensioning using geometry
33 - Creating annotative dimensions using active layout viewports
34 - More features in the dimension tool (DIM)

Conclusion

35 - Moving forward with annotative dimensioning