providing accurate measurement, demonstrate why working with dimensions
play a very important role on any AutoCAD user. in this lesson we'll help
you save time by setting up AutoCAD to place your dimensions always in the
layer that you choose.
all right to start our brand new command, let's first explain why do we need this tool
as you may know, it was impossible to change the default layer that dimensions
come into. if we add a dimension it will place it into whatever my current layer
is at that time. this is why we need this custom tool. the nice things are, one,
these tool won't change our current layer. two, we will be able to also specify
color to our dimension layer. three this command will work with any type of
dimensions, linear dimension, angular dimension, radius dimension, you know all
the types of dimensions, and finally this will work also with the keyboard shortcuts
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to create our autocad custom command, let's type cui and enter. this will bring us
to the customizable user interface of AutoCAD. to create a brand new command in AutoCAD
we can duplicate any of the existing commands, rename it and change
its macro. alternatively we can hit the start icon to create a new command and
again, we can rename it and change its macro. so let's create our custom command
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a quick explanation of this macro would be CC to get out of any active command
then, we'll use the system variable dimlayer. the name of my layer would be a-anno-dims
but you can pick your own name. then we'll use the command layer
to pick a color. in this case the color of my layer would be 141 but you can
pick your own color. color seven for white, color
three for green, and so on. finally we'll use the Dimlinear command
now to use our custom command and have it always available, we can either add it
to our AutoCAD ribbon,
to our AutoCAD quick access panel, or to our AutoCAD tool palette. so let's add it
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from now on, AutoCAD will make sure all of your dimensions are placed in the
correct layer, not you anymore!
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