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Create general dimensions

Create general dimensions - Inventor Tutorial

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Create general dimensions

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- [Voiceover] Now that you understand how to create drawing sheets and drawing views, let's take a moment to look at how we can begin adding dimensions to our drawings. On the screen I have an engine block dimensions drawing that we're going to use for this exercise. To begin creating dimensions, we need to go to the annotate tab. Within the annotate tab, you have all the things that you're going to need in order to create information on this drawing. Such as dimensions, feature notes, texts, symbols, and other items. Dimensions within drawings work in almost exactly the same fashion as dimensions within a sketch environment, with one minor difference. In the sketch environment, you're creating dimensions to drive the size of the model. In the drawing, you're actually creating dimensions to provide information about manufacturing. Those types of dimensions are not always going to be the same. The one thing that's different about dimensions in drawings, is that they need to be much…

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