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

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Adding jog lines to linear and aligned dimensions

Adding jog lines to linear and aligned dimensions - AutoCAD Tutorial

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

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Adding jog lines to linear and aligned dimensions

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- Once again, we're staying in the Dimension Types.dwg file, and as you can see, we've got the dimensions left over from the previous video. So we need to do a little bit of housekeeping again. So I'm going to use a little crossing selection. Click, release the mouse button. Drag, click again. Right click, and erase those dimensions. And the same again, click over here. Left click, release the mouse button. Drag, left click again. Right click, and erase. We want a nice, clean drawing for what we're going to do next. I'm going to introduce you now to basically, little jog symbols that you can add to your linear and aligned dimension types. Now, you saw this in one of the previous videos where we did the jogged radius, where you have that little jog in the dimension when the dimension can be quite large. The physical dimension, that is. But you don't want to have a massive dimension annotation on your drawing. So we're…

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