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How to dimension both length and angle of a line?

Anonymous — Fri, 11 May 2018 05:21:25 GMT

Hi,

My experience with AutoCAD is about less than an hour as of now. I'm following a tutorial from Autodesk. After showing us the basics of laying out dimensions, its asks to replicate this:

I can do all that but I can't figure out how to display both length and angle of a slanted line as they did (I highlighted them in yellow circles). aligned linear dimension only gives me the length.

Re: How to dimension both length and angle of a line?

imadHabash — Fri, 11 May 2018 06:40:20 GMT

Hi,

>> I can't figure out how to display both length and angle of a slanted line as they did <<

i think that you're asking about Alternate units ( Not angle ) . select your dim line then Ctrl+1 and put and select proper values that meet your needs. ( see below image )

Regards,

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j.palmeL29YX — Fri, 11 May 2018 08:47:30 GMT

@Anonymousschrieb:

... I can't figure out how to display both length and angle of a slanted line as they did (I highlighted them in yellow circles).

In this drawing example they tricked with fields. It's not yet a thema for beginners/newbies.

If you are interested in this, I will show you a screencast in some minutes how to do it.

[EDIT]

Here it is:

https://autode.sk/2rAYEzI

Oops: In the screencast I forgot the ° symbol for the angle dimension. If You want to add this, edit the field, pick "Additional format" and add a Suffix "°" (without the "").

cadder

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tasdiq.ameem — Sat, 12 May 2018 04:56:07 GMT

@j.palmeL29YX

Thank you for taking the time to answer that and more. The regen command looks really useful.

Is the screencast a built-in feature in autoCAD or did you use another software?

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j.palmeL29YX — Sat, 12 May 2018 07:07:01 GMT

@tasdiq.ameemschrieb:
Is the screencast a built-in feature in autoCAD or did you use another software?

It is not a built-in feature, but I guess it is develeoped by Autodesk.
For more informations (including download) a good startpoint is here

https://screencast.autodesk.com/Main/About

cadder