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Editing dimensions and dimension overrides - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing dimensions and dimension overrides

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new drawing now for a new chapter, and the drawing is called Ground Floor Plan, nice and easy, gndfloorplan.dwg, and you can download it from the library to follow along with the videos in this chapter. Now, in this chapter, we're going to be looking at more dimensioning techniques, and in this particular video, we're going to be looking at editing dimensions and also dimension overrides. Now the drawing itself is a ground floor plan, with some dimensions, some walls, and there's a few other little bits and pieces in there as well. What I'd like you to do is zoom in on this horizontal dimension here, so we're going to zoom in on it a bit. There you go, it's 8342 like that and just hover over it Double Click on it, and as soon as you Double Click on it, you'll notice the text editor kicks in on the ribbon as you can see the blue tab up at the top of the screen there. Now this is something you can use on any piece of annotation. It doesn't have to be a dimension. You can Double Click on a piece of text like multi-line text, single line text, but it's really useful for editing dimension text. Now you can see there's a little flashing cursor there, if I use my arrow keys just to flip that by using the right hand arrow key, can you see the cursor flips to the right of the 8342 dimension text. I'm going to put a space in, and then UNO, UNO stands for unless notified otherwise. Then all I've got to do is pop up to here, to close the text editor, and it updates that for me. Now you'll notice it's prompting me to select another annotation object. I'm not going to, so I just press Enter again, that closes that textedit command. And the command is literally textedit. You type the words, textedit, all one word, press Enter, and select a piece of annotation, and that's what you'll get. Now, if we pan across slightly, you'll see that we've got another horizontal dimension there, 5910. This time, select the dimension and Right Click and go to properties on the shortcut menu. That will open up the properties pallet. Now in the properties, if you use the slider bar here and come down, you'll see there's an entire area in the properties and it's all about dimension text. Down here you've got the text override, can you see that? So I'm going to click here in the text override box and I can put any type of text. So I'm going to put in there, measure on site, Space Dash Space, and then I'm going to put approx, with a dot, and then I'm going to put Less Than Greater Than. Now you're probably thinking to yourself why am I putting Less Than Greater Than in a text override? Well, what'll happen is it'll actually put the measurement 5910, where that Less Than Greater Than is. Watch what happens when I click back there and press Enter. Can you see it's updated and there's the 5910. So that's a really useful tool with your text override like that. And if I close the properties pallet, hit Escape a couple of times, I can add any type of text override to my dimension text like that, it's really, really useful. So if I zoom out slightly, as you can see there, we've used a dimension edit and a dimension override in this particular video. Very quick and easy, and it'll make your life a lot easier when you're working with dimension annotation in your drawings.

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