From the course: AutoCAD: Annotative Dimensions, Dimension Styles, and Dimension Families

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Using Linear, Aligned, and Angular dimensions

Using Linear, Aligned, and Angular dimensions

- [Instructor] We're staying in our Dimension Types.dwg file that we used in the previous video. And you can see the dimensions that I placed using the Dimension tool earlier. What we're going to do, we're going to select the dimensions that we placed earlier like so, and we're just going to click on each of them like that, and then I right-click, and then use Erase on the shortcut menu so that we've got a nice, clean polyline to work with again. We're going to take a look now at the Linear, Aligned, and Angular dimension types. Now before we do that, what I'd like you to do is just jump back to the Home tab on the ribbon, make sure that your current drafting layer is Objects, and then we're going to go to the Line tool here in the Draw panel, there's the Line command, click on it, and using your object snaps, click here, left-click on this end point, and come over to this end point and left-click here like so, and then…

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