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Now you can see we've got it's 100, but it's shown as 100 point and it's four decimal places.

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Sometimes you might want to be that exact.

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Most of the time you wouldn't.

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So that is controlled under primary units.

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Okay, but we've got another one here fit.

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So let's look.

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Let's look at them in order.

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So.

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Underfoot.

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You can have an overall scale of your dimension, so you could scale the whole thing up uniformly.

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Okay.

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If you wanted, you can have your dim lines inside.

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Now.

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Okay.

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Now, most of these options, as I said, you're not you're not really going to alter that much.

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Best thing you can do is so this chapter isn't an hour long.

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Click them and see what they do.

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But the ones you will use most is this 100.

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If you want to move out and you want more control.

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We've already looked here where you could put it.

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So above.

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Or below.

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But even even then, you've not got that much control if you click on that text.

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The whole thing moves as one object.

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So what I like to do under this, the one option I do like to change here, you see you've got text

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movement.

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Keep dim line with text.

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So I like to put it on move, text.

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Now what that will do if you click on Move text No leader, you get a grip on your text.

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You can now move that.

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Okay.

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And we'll turn off o off.

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You can now have much more control about where you put that without the line moving as well.

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And that's good.

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When you've got a cluttered drawing, maybe there's a wall above there or a symbol.

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You just want to move your text to the side of it.

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It gives you much more control.

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The other option was to add a leader.

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Now this one, when you do move it, it's going to put an arrow on that can get very cluttered.

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I tend to use this no leader and just adjust it myself.

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And that's you see, if you get close to the line, it'll break it for you.

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That's generally all I use on this one.

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Now let's look at these primary units.

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Precision.

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This is where we've got our four decimal places.

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We can knock that down to no decimal places.

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Or if you want a bit of precision, one decimal place.

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So let's say this line was I'm going to add another line here.

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Okay.

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And it's going to be nine units.

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And I'm going to put a dimension.

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Onto the end there.

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So now we've got it says it's 109.

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We don't want it to say 109.

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If someone was manufacturing this, they're not going to make it 109.

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Maybe it's not that precise if you're talking precision.

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Yes.

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But if it's just something you're cutting out of wood, they'll just laugh with 109mm.

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So we want 110.

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You don't need to change all the lines to be exact lengths.

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You can just say, let me collapse some of these.

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Under this primary unit, you can just say, well, round it off, round it off to the nearest five,

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okay.

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And it will automatically kind of round that off to the nearest and you can be as exact as you want.

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You could round that off to the nearest 500 if you want and it will be zero.

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But that's probably asking a bit too much.

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So round off can come in handy just to neaten up those dimensions, especially when you start getting

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decimal places.

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So if if this had said 109.975 or something and you wanted to keep the decimal place but you didn't

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want it to be point nine, you can just round it up to the nearest one and it will automatically do

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that.

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Okay.

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So that's primary units.

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You can put a prefix and a suffix.

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So you could type in in millimeters and it will automatically put millimeters on.

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So you don't need to type that in or you could put inches.

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Okay.

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Um.

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Or you could just put in the.

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Inches, Mark.

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Sorry.

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That's feet.

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Inches.

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Okay.

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So you can do that and that will automatically add this onto all your text.

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And again, you can do that as a prefix as well.

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So maybe you wanted it to say length.

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You can put that as a prefix.

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So it will add that automatically.

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And now if this dimension changes, it's going to change the value, but it's still going to leave the

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length of the inches.

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So prefixes and suffixes.

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Okay, dim units we've got.

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Different notation, different ways.

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So if you've got your engineering maps giving you a eight foot four inches, sometimes you want it as

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a decimal, even in inches.

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I know sometimes they use decimals, sometimes you want it in feet and inches.

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You can change all that.

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And this is again, have a play about see what it does with your precision alternate units.

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Can't say I ever use that tolerances.

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And you can add things so you can add symbols and tolerance.

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Again, that's very advanced.

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That's more of an engineering course.

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This is just an AutoCAD course.

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So that's the basics.

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One thing I will say is if you wanted this to actually say something completely different, sometimes

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it's just indicative.

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Okay.

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So it might this line might measure 100 units, but you want it to say.

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Six miles, for instance.

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I don't know.

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So you can just double click it and it comes up.

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It's just MDX.

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So you could write six miles long and then delete what was there a day and you'll get that and it'll

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act just like your dimension text.

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But now and if you go under text, you'll see it's actually got a text override which is here, so you

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can change it there.

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But I tend to just double click it and that's dimension.