Dimensioning tools overview
Dimensioning tools can be found in:
- The Dimensions toolbar.
- The Dimensions menu.
- The Annotate / Dimensions ribbon panel.
- The Draw tab of the No Selection Quad.
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Linear Dimension | DIMLINEAR | Creates horizontal or vertical linear dimensions. |
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Aligned Dimension | DIMALIGNED | Creates linear dimensions which are aligned with the dimension points. |
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Jog Line | DIMJOGLINE | Adds or removes jog line to linear or aligned dimensions. |
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Arc | DIMARC | Creates arc length dimensions. |
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Radius | DIMRADIUS | Creates radial dimensions in circles and circular arcs. |
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Diameter | DIMDIAMETER | Creates diametrical dimensions in circles and circular arcs. |
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Jogged Dimension | DIMJOGGED | Creates jogged dimension for arcs or circles. |
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Disassociate Dimensions | DIMDISASSOCIATE | Removes the associativity from selected dimension entities. |
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Reassociate Dimensions | DIMREASSOCIATE | Reassociates or associates dimensions to entities or points on entities. |
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Angular | DIMANGULAR | Creates angular dimensions. |
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Baseline | DIMBASELINE | Creates stacked linear dimensions. |
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Continue | DIMCONTINUE | Creates a chain of linear dimensions, starting from an existing linear dimension entity. |
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Ordinate | DIMORDINATE | Creates ordinate dimensions. |
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Rotated | DIMLINEAR | Creates rotated linear dimensions. |
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Make Oblique | DIMEDIT + O | Makes the extension lines of the selected dimension(s) oblique. |
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Multileader | MLEADER | Creates Mleaders (multileaders) using a multileader style. |
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Edit Multileader | MLEADEREDIT | Adds leader lines to and removes leader lines from a multileader entity. |
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Multileader add leaders | AIMLEADEREDITADD | Adds leader lines to a multileader. |
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Multileader remove leaders | AIMLEADEREDITREMOVE | Removes leader lines from a multileader. |
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Tolerance | TOLERANCE | Defines the layout of geometric tolerances. |
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Dimcenter | DIMCENTER | Draws center lines in circles and circular arcs. |
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Edit Dimension Text | DIMEDIT + E | Defines the dimension text of the selected dimension(s). |
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Rotate Dimension Text | DIMEDIT + R | Rotates the dimension text of the selected dimension(s). |
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Reposition Dimension Text | DIMTEDIT | Lets you reposition the dimension text. |
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Restore Text Position | DIMEDIT | Undoes the rotation or repositioning of the dimension text of the selected dimension(s). |
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Apply Dimension Style | DIMSTYLE + A | Applies the current dimension style to the selected dimension(s). |
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Save Dimension Style | DIMSTYLE + S | Saves the current dimension settings in a new dimension style. |
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Restore Dimension Style | DIMSTYLE | Sets the current dimension style. |
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Dimension Variable Status | DIMSTYLE + ST | Displays the status of the dimension variables in the Command line and the Prompt History window. |
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Leader | DIMLEADER | Creates a leader with or without text. |
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Quick Leader | QLEADER | Draws leaders. Lets you specify the properties of the leader through a dialog box and reuse them for a series of leaders. |