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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Familiar with the Work Area
- 3 Drawing Commands in AutoCAD Mechanical
- 4 Modify Drawings with Power Commands
- 5 Generate Standard Parts
- 6 Organize Objects with Layers
- 7 Create Hidden Lines
- 8 Reusable Detailing Tools
- 9 Power Dimensions
- 10 Add Part Lists and Balloons
- 11 International Drafting Standards
- Index
Power Dimensions
Unlike AutoCAD
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, AutoCAD
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Mechanical does not use several dimension commands to
create linear, angular, baseline, and chain dimensions. In AutoCAD Mechanical, the power
dimension command, AMPOWERDIM, saves you time in creating multiple dimension types
on your drawings.
This lesson describes how to use the Power Dimensioning and automatic dimensioning tools
to add dimensions on your drawings. It also shows you how to edit dimensions quickly with
a set of editing tools.
Create Mechanical Dimensions
You create dimensions on a drawing to communicate the required sizes of parts
to the production team for fabrication purposes.
Use the Power Dimension command to create horizontal, vertical, aligned,
rotated, angular, radial, baseline, and chain dimensions. Power Dimensions give
you the flexibility to define the appearance and content of the dimensions.
You can create dimensions in model space or layout. Power Dimensions
automatically adjust based on the scale factors of the scaled area in model space.
In the layout, dimensions added automatically based on the points or geometry
selected.
Add Dimensions by using Power Dimensioning
In the following image shows the completed dimensioning on the two views
of a gland.
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