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AutoCAD Lesson 104 – Annotation Commands
After we watched and learn from previous lesson 103.
Let’s take a look these next Topic.
Annotations can also help CAD drafters keep track of all the important information a plain image can not express in a project. In AutoCAD, a few of the many ways to Annotate a draft are to use DIMENSIONS pallet tools and the TEXT pallet tools. Those will help you put written information on your design making it easier to vision and to elucidate.
| SHORTCUT/ COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
| MT, MTEXT / MULTILINE TEXT | You can create paragraph, multi-line text |
| T/TEXT | You can create single-line text |
| DLI/DIMENSION LINEAR | Create a Linear dimension |
| DAL/DIMENSION ALIGNED | Create an aligned dimension |
| DAN / DIMENSION ANGULAR | Create an angular dimension |
| DAR / DIMENSION ARC LENGTH | Create an arc length dimension |
| DRA / DIMENSION RADIUS | Create a radius dimension for a circle or an arc |
| DDI / DIMENSION DIAMETER | Create a diameter dimension for a circle or an arc |
| DIMORD / DIMENSION ORDINATE | Creates ordinate dimension. |
| DIMJOGGED / DIMENSION JOGGED | Create a jogged dimension for a circle or an arc |
| MLEADER / LEADER | Create a multi-leader object |
| MLEADER / LEADER | Create a multi-leader object |
Summary:
If you have finished watching video posted above, we tackled brief overview of annotation commands. By hovering each icon we see the name of the commands and their function or usage. Also listed above are some basic commands with shortcut keys or aliases and each description.
“Note: Basics topic, but always keep in mind that mastery of this basics will lead us into advance.“
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AutoCAD Lesson 105. – Let’s Getting Started
