1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:13,000 So we looked at LiDAR before in the text lesson. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 If we had this table now and we if we did a LiDAR now. 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 So in, off, off. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Okay. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 And we wrote table and it looks terrible. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 It's basically the same as our dimension. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 So we can click it and we get the same kind of options. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000 But we have instead of line which we had under here, we had lines and arrows. 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 We've got LiDAR. 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 But other than that, we've got the arrow to type, we've got the arrow size. 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 We can change. 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Okay. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 The arrow type, we can change. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 We've got the text height, we can change. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Okay? 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 We've got grips, we can move about. 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 We can move this arrow, change that angle. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Change where that is. 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:05,000 You see. 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 So you've got all this functionality under your leader. 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Once you understand how to change it. 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 But a leader is a dimension. 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,000 That's the main thing. 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 That's the one thing that can trip people up in AutoCAD. 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 It is a dimension. 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Okay, Now when you've changed this, so this dimension is how I want my dimensions to look. 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And I want you probably do want them all to look the same in one drawing all your leaders and texts. 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 You probably all want to look like this. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,000 But if you do another one on another object, you're going to you're going to get the same thing. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 If this was a chair pointing to a chair, okay, Now you've got to go and you've got to change all that. 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:54,000 One thing AutoCAD has under properties, which is part of a properties which I use all the time, is 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,000 the match properties. 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000 You can click on this Match Properties button, select an object you like you're happy with, and now 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 any object you select will change to look the same as long as it is the same object you can. 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:13,000 If you've got another dimension, you can do match properties, make this dimension, match the properties 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 of that to that one. 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Okay. 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 And you can see it's even because we add that suffix and the inches, we have the length as a prefix 39 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 and the inches as a suffix. 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 It's added all them options. 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 But even that can be a bit tedious if you've got a lot of dimensions in your drawing. 42 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 So the best thing to do is say, okay, now I'm happy with how my first dimension looks. 43 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Any dimension I create in this drawing, I want to automatically take on those properties and that's 44 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 done under your styles. 45 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 So. 46 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 So if we go up here, we've got this annotate pull down menu. 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,000 You'll see we get options for the annotation and you've got things like your leaders. 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Okay. 49 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 It's the same tools as you were getting before. 50 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Your home menu is kind of a quick. 51 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Tools and the actual annotate tool bar is more in-depth tools, but it's the same things we were changing 52 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:16,000 in the property bar. 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,000 But one thing is you can set a style to be the default style. 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 So we've changed this dimension. 55 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 We've got it how we want. 56 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 We want this to be the default style in this drawing. 57 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 First thing we need to do is make this into a style itself. 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And we can do that. 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 We can select it right click and we go. 60 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 It's a dimension. 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 So we want dimension style. 62 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Okay, Save as new style. 63 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 And I'm going to call this. 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I'm just going to call it star style. 65 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 100. 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Okay. 67 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 You can name it anything you want. 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 You can name it. 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 So we call that style 100. 70 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 But now what you need to do is so we've given this a style. 71 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000 And if we go to our properties box, you can see the dim style is style 100. 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,000 We could change it back to standard, which was the default and it will go back to how it was. 73 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,000 But now we can select Style 100 there and it will automatically change. 74 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 And what we can now do whatever you've got set under here. 75 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 So it's under annotate dimension. 76 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 This is your current dimension style. 77 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 It's a default dimension style. 78 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 It works like the layer style by changing this and we'll see. 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Now we have style 100. 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 So we change that there. 81 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 We can forget about now come out of that. 82 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 But now we've set that as the under this tab we've set that as the default style in this drawing. 83 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:59,000 So if we create a dimension now, all our dimensions from now on we'll have the same style automatically. 84 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 It'll be applied. 85 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 So by changing your first one. 86 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 To be how you want. 87 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 You can then all your others can be set. 88 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 As long as that's the default style, all your others will come out okay.