Laboratory Manual

2D DRAWING WITH DIMENSIONS

2D DRAWING WITH DIMENSION

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3.1 DIMENSIONING IN AUTOCAD

To insert a dimension, depending on the type of the dimension, the user should specify points or
selected objects, and then a dimension block will be added to the drawing. For example, to add a linear
dimension, the user will select two points representing the distance to be measured, and a third point
will be the location of the dimension block.

The generated block consist of three portions, which are:

 Dimension Line
 Extension Line
 Dimension Text

3.2 CREATING A NEW DIMENSION STYLE

This command will create a new dimension style or modify an existing one. To issue this
command, go to the Annotate tab, locate the Dimensions panel, then select Dimension Style button:

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As you can see you will find two predefined dimension styles, Standard and Annotative. Click the
New button to create a new style. You will see the following dialog box:

Input the name of the new style to be made, and under Start With, select the existing style,
which will be your starting point. Leave the Annotative checkbox off. Make sure that under Use for is All
dimensions; to start creating the new style click the Continue button.

3.3 DIMENSION STYLE: LINES TAB

As a rule of thumb, and while we are discussing the different tabs of the dimension style
command, we will leave Color, Linetype, and Lineweight to their default settings, because we want these
things to be controlled by layers rather than the individual dimension block.

The first tab in the dimension style dialog box is Lines; it will allow you control of dimension lines
and extension lines:

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Under Dimension Lines, change all or any of the following settings:

 Control Extend beyond ticks, which is as illustrated below

 When you add Baseline dimension you will not control the spacing between one dimension and
another, or control Baseline spacing, as illustrated below:

 Choose whether to Suppress Dim line 1, Dim line 2, or leave them as is as shown in the figure
below.

 Choose whether to Suppress Ext line 1, Ext line 2, or leave them as is as shown in the figure
below.

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 Input Extend beyond dim lines and Offset from the origin as shown below:

 Choose whether to fix the length of the extension lines or not; if yes, what will be the length?
See the following example below:

3.4 DIMENSION STYLE: SYMBOLS AND ARROWS TAB

This tab will control the arrowheads and related features. Below is the picture of the Symbols
and Arrows tab:

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Under Arrowheads, change all or any of the following:

 The shape of the First arrowhead. When you set the shape of the first, automatically the Second
arrowheads will change. If you want them to be different change the second.
 The shape of the arrowhead to be used in the Leader (Radius and Diameter are not leaders)
 The Size of the arrowhead

Under Center marks, choose whether to show or hide the Center mark of arcs and circles as shown
below, then set the size of the center mark:

Under the Dimension Break, input the Break size; break size is defined as the distance of void
left between two broker lines of dimension as shown on the figure below:

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Under Arc length symbol, choose whether to show (as shown in the picture below) or hide the
arc length symbol:

Under Radius dimension jog, input the Jog angle as shown in the figure below:

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Under the Linear Jog dimension, input the Jog height factor as shown in the below picture. Jog
height factor is defined as a factor to multiply the height of the text used in dimension:

3.5 DIMENSION STYLE: TEXT TAB

This tab will control the text appearing in the dimension block as shown on the figure below:

Under Text appearance change all or any of the following:

 Select the desired Text Style, or create a new one.

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 If your text style has a text height = 0 (zero) then input the Text height.
 Depending on the primary units, set the Fraction scale.

 Select whether your text will be a frame or without a frame, check the figure below:

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Under Text placement change all or any of the following:

 Choose the Vertical placement of your text related to the dimension line; there are five available
choices: Centered, Above, Outside, JIS (Japan Industrial Standard), and Below as shown on the
figure below:

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 Choose the Horizontal placement; the user has five choices to pick from as shown below:

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 Choose the View Direction of the dimension text: Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left as shown below:

 Input the Offset from the dim line, as shown below:

Under the Text alignment, control the alignment of the text related to the dimension line,
whether horizontal always regardless of the alignment of the dimension line, or aligned with the
dimension line. ISO will influence only the Radius and Diameter dimension; all of the dimension types
will be aligned except for those two.

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3.6 DIMENSION STYLE: FIT TAB

This tab will control the relationship between the dimension block components.

Under Fit options, change all or any of the following:

 If there is no room for the text and/or the arrowheads inside the extension lines, what do you
want AutoCAD to do? Select proper option
 If there is no room for arrows to be inside the extension lines, do you want AutoCAD to suppress
them? Or not?

Under Text placement, if the text to be sent outside the extension lines, select one of the following
illustrated cases:

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Under Scale for dimension features, the user will control the size of the text features (length,
sizes, etc).

Under Fine-tuning, select whether you want to place your text manually rather than leaving it to
AutoCAD. Also, select to force text always inside extension lines.

3.7 DIMENSION STYLE: PRIMARY UNITS TAB

In this tab, the user will be allowed to control everything related to numbers, which will appear
at the dimension block as shown in the Primary Units tab:

Under Linear dimensions, change all or any of the following settings:

 Select the desired Unit format, then select its Precision

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 If your selection was Architectural or Fractional, then choose the desired Fraction format. You
will have three choices to pick from Horizontal, Diagonal, and Not Stacked.

 If your selection was Decimal, then choose the Decimal Separator; you will have three choices:
Period, Comma, and Space.
 Input the Round off the number
 Input the Prefix and/or the Suffix, like below:

Under Measurement scale, change all or any of the following:

 By default, AutoCAD will measure the distance between the two points specified by you and
input the text in the format set by you. But what if you want to show a different value than the
measured value? At this moment, input the scale factor.

Under Zero suppression, choose whether to suppress the Leading and/or the Trailing zeros as
shown below:

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If you have meters as your unit, and the measured value was less than one (which is cm) we call
this sub-unit. Select the sub-unit factor and the suffix for it.

Under Angular dimensions, choose the Unit format and the Precision. Control Zero suppression
for angles as well.

6.8 DIMENSION STYLE: ALTERNATE UNITS TAB

This tab will show two numbers in the same dimension block, one showing primary units, and
the other showing alternate units. Below is the Alternate Units tab:

Click on the Display alternate units option, then change the following:

 Choose the Alternate Unit format and its Precision

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 Input the Zero suppression method

6.9 DIMENSION STYLE: TOLERANCES TAB

This tab will control whether or not to show tolerances, and what is the used method.

There are four methods to show tolerance, which are:

 Symmetrical
 Deviation
 Limits
 Basic

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Under Tolerance format, change all or any of the following:

 Select the proper Method, and then select its Precision

If either Deviation method or Limits method is selected, then you have to choose whether to
Align decimal separators or Align operational symbols as shown below.

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Under Alternate units tolerances, and if the Alternate units option is turned on, then specify the
Precision of the numbers. Consequently, choose the Zero suppression for both the Primary unit
tolerance and the Alternate unit tolerance.

OBJECTIVE

To draft orthographic views with dimensions.

SIGNIFICANCE OF USE

Orthographic Views in a drawing plan is usually used to determine every side of each model.
This allows the user of the plan to have an accurate vision of the figure of the drawings.

TOOLS/DEVICE/SOFTWARE USED

 AutoCAD
 Laptop/Computer

ACTIVITY PROCEDURE

Try to do the following Figure:

EXERCISE 1:

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EXERCISE 2:

EXERCISE 3:

REPORT:

 Parts Assembly / 3D Perspective with Orthographic View

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