So we looked at LiDAR before in the text lesson.
If we had this table now and we if we did a LiDAR now.
So in, off, off.
Okay.
And we wrote table and it looks terrible.
It's basically the same as our dimension.
So we can click it and we get the same kind of options.
But we have instead of line which we had under here, we had lines and arrows.
We've got LiDAR.
But other than that, we've got the arrow to type, we've got the arrow size.
We can change.
Okay.
The arrow type, we can change.
We've got the text height, we can change.
Okay?
We've got grips, we can move about.
We can move this arrow, change that angle.
Change where that is.
You see.
So you've got all this functionality under your leader.
Once you understand how to change it.
But a leader is a dimension.
That's the main thing.
That's the one thing that can trip people up in AutoCAD.
It is a dimension.
Okay, Now when you've changed this, so this dimension is how I want my dimensions to look.
And I want you probably do want them all to look the same in one drawing all your leaders and texts.
You probably all want to look like this.
But if you do another one on another object, you're going to you're going to get the same thing.
If this was a chair pointing to a chair, okay, Now you've got to go and you've got to change all that.
One thing AutoCAD has under properties, which is part of a properties which I use all the time, is
the match properties.
You can click on this Match Properties button, select an object you like you're happy with, and now
any object you select will change to look the same as long as it is the same object you can.
If you've got another dimension, you can do match properties, make this dimension, match the properties
of that to that one.
Okay.
And you can see it's even because we add that suffix and the inches, we have the length as a prefix
and the inches as a suffix.
It's added all them options.
But even that can be a bit tedious if you've got a lot of dimensions in your drawing.
So the best thing to do is say, okay, now I'm happy with how my first dimension looks.
Any dimension I create in this drawing, I want to automatically take on those properties and that's
done under your styles.
So.
So if we go up here, we've got this annotate pull down menu.
You'll see we get options for the annotation and you've got things like your leaders.
Okay.
It's the same tools as you were getting before.
Your home menu is kind of a quick.
Tools and the actual annotate tool bar is more in-depth tools, but it's the same things we were changing
in the property bar.
But one thing is you can set a style to be the default style.
So we've changed this dimension.
We've got it how we want.
We want this to be the default style in this drawing.
First thing we need to do is make this into a style itself.
And we can do that.
We can select it right click and we go.
It's a dimension.
So we want dimension style.
Okay, Save as new style.
And I'm going to call this.
I'm just going to call it star style.
100.
Okay.
You can name it anything you want.
You can name it.
So we call that style 100.
But now what you need to do is so we've given this a style.
And if we go to our properties box, you can see the dim style is style 100.
We could change it back to standard, which was the default and it will go back to how it was.
But now we can select Style 100 there and it will automatically change.
And what we can now do whatever you've got set under here.
So it's under annotate dimension.
This is your current dimension style.
It's a default dimension style.
It works like the layer style by changing this and we'll see.
Now we have style 100.
So we change that there.
We can forget about now come out of that.
But now we've set that as the under this tab we've set that as the default style in this drawing.
So if we create a dimension now, all our dimensions from now on we'll have the same style automatically.
It'll be applied.
So by changing your first one.
To be how you want.
You can then all your others can be set.
As long as that's the default style, all your others will come out okay.