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Creating general dimension notations

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Creating general dimension notations

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- In this chapter, we're going to be learning about drawing dimensions. We'll cover the Baseline Dimensions, Chain Dimensions, Ordinate Dimensions, plus so much more. Let's go ahead and dive in. General dimensions can be added to your part or your drawing view inside of SolidWorks pretty straightforward and easily by clicking on the Annotation toolbar and come over here to Smart Dimension. Now, directly below Smart Dimension here are a whole bunch of other ways we can add dimensions, but Smart Dimension generally picks the best dimension possible. Instead of having to choose individual, like horizontal, vertical dimensions and so on, this Smart Dimension will do most of that for us. So go ahead and choose that one there. Now we have to choose which face of our part is our datum, which one is going to start all of our dimensions. So in this case here, I could choose either this face here or this one over here. Now this one over here makes more sense to me, so I'm going to start there…

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