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Filtering is enabled automatically to prevent you from dimensioning hidden
lines, auxiliary lines, text, phantom lines, section lines, hatches, or other
dimension lines.
Multiple dimensioning commands use the current drawing standard and
drawing scale. The program places them on layer AM_5.
Try It: Create Multiple Dimensions
In the following exercise, you specify the datum point at the lower left corner
of the flange and create automatic dimensions along its x-y axis. Notice that
the program ignores hatching lines when dimensioning.
On the Annotate tab, select the Multiple Dimensioning command. Select
the Ordinate tab, and select the checkboxes for Both Axes and Rotate Text.
Generate the dimensions as shown in the following illustration.
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