Hello,

I saw that everybody liked the dimension settings and reading them, it means that everybody knows how to make dimensioning.

As you know them, let me explain the dimensioning buttons in the DIMENSION menu one by one. If the DIMENSION toolbar is not open, then you should right click any of the buttons and choose DIMENSION from there.

Fig.1

First one, and the most frequently used one is LINEAR dimensioning. By LINEAR, you can make horizontal and vertical dimensioning.

Command: _dimlinear
 

Specify first extension line origin or [select object]:1-Click on the first point.
Specify second extension line origin:2- Click on the second point.
Specify dimension line location or
[Mtext/Text/Angle/Horizontal/Vertical/Rotated]:Dimension text = 110 3-Click on the point where you want the dimension to be.

Fig.3 You can make linear dimensioning with 3 clicks.

After you make the second click;

MT enter  multitext box is opened.
T enter you can enter whatever dimension you want.
A enter  you can have the dimension text to be with angles by entering an angle.
H enter  makes horizontal dimensioning.
V enter  makes vertical dimensioning.
R enter makes dimensioning by giving angle to the dimension line.

*Tip-1: If you press ENTER after clicking linear, it is enough to click only the line that you will dimension.

*Tip-2: If you encounter a dimension that you don’t desire (i.e. 100.0235), press linear, click on the line, after pressing  T and then ENTER, input the dimension you want, and finally place the dimension an a proper location.

With this dimensioning style, you can dimension angled lines which are not horizontal or vertical.

Command: _dimaligned

 

 

After you press the command, press enter once and click on the angled line. Then click at another proper point to place the dimension.

Fig.5 Aligned Dimension

As it can be understood from its name, it measures the length or arcs. Its usage is quite simple. Just click on the arc you want to dimension. It may not be present in the previous articles, but there is remedy for it

Command: _dimarc
Select arc or polyline arc segment:Click on an arc or polyline.

Fig.7 Arc length can be measured by one click.

It shows the distance between the origin and the plane that we have chosen as X or Y. By other means, it gives the coordinates of the point.

 

Command: _dimordinate
Specify feature location: Click on the point where you want to learn its position.
Specify leader endpoint or [Xdatum/Ydatum/Mtext/Text/Angle]: If you press X and ENTER, you get the distance of x relative to the origin, and if you press Y and ENTER, you get y distance relative to the origin.

Fig.9 Coordinate information
 
In the figure above, I clicked on the location where I want to learn the position, and then I pressed Y and ENTER. You can see the final dimension also in the lower left corner of the screen. Y distance of the position I have clicked is enclosed in red rectangular box. You can also see the coordinates at the lower left corner while you move your mouse.

P.S.: If the lower left corner is closed, left click on it, or write COORDS, ENTER, 1, ENTER in the command line.

Hope to see you in the second part.

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