Tuesday

Dimensioning III

Hello,

In the third part of dimensioning subject, we will make applications of QUICK, BASELINE and CONTINUE options. I believe you will like them, due to the fact that they enable you to make easy and quick dimensioning.

First of all, let’s examine QUICK dimension option. Quick dimension means fast dimensioning. You can have AutoCAD to make dimensioning as you click on the part where you will make dimensioning, or simply by enclosing in a selection window.

Command: _qdim
 

Select geometry to dimension: 1 found
(If the entity you want to dimension is a POLYLINE then QDIM will easily handle this. Or you can make mulitple selections for the entities you want to dimension one by one and make multiple dimensioning for them) Finally, click on the location where you want the dimension to be.

Fig. 2 If you draw a POLYLINE, you can place all of the dimensions by only one click. 

If you want, you can select all of the entities you want to dimension by selecting them with a selection window and dimension all of them at once, as well as you can make this operation one bu one for each entity.

Command: _dimbaseline

It enables you  to make dimensioning by taking the location, which has been dimensioned last, as reference. First, dimension a step by LINEAR as shown in Fig. 4.
Then press Baseline dimensioning. Command will automatically find the first point and prompt you to enter the second point. Click on each of the corners respectively.

Fig.4 BASELINE dimensioning.

Command will also automatically determine the space between the dimensions. If your dimensions are mixed up, you can make the relevant necassary adjustments by the help of Dimension style settings II article written by Orhan Toker.

Continue Dimension

This dimensioning type enables you to make dimensions which are the continuations of each other. At the first stage, dimension the first step as LINEAR. Then, choose CONTINUE dimensioning and choose the end points.

Fig. 6 Continuing dimensioning.

Hope to see you next, in the fourth and last chapter. Have a nice day,