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Creating Dimension Lines

Dimension lines locate walls, openings in walls, and other objects. With Chief Architect you can generate automatic exterior dimension lines, and draw a variety of manual dimensions such as interior dimensions, point to point dimensions, baseline dimensions, and angular dimensions. For more information about dimensions, see "Dimensions".

To create automatic exterior dimension lines
  1. Select CAD> Dimension > Auto Exterior Dimensions .
  2. For a closer view of a certain area, click the Zoom Window tool, click and drag a box around the area you want to see in detail, and release the mouse button. That area fills the screen. For more information, see "Zoom & View Tools".
  3. To return to the previous view, click the Undo Zoom tool.
  4. If you can't see all the exterior dimension lines at once, click the Fill Window Building Only button to center your plan on screen.



To draw an interior dimension line
  1. Select CAD> Dimension> Interior Dimension .
  2. Click and drag a line that intersects the interior wall and other walls you want to locate.



  3. Release the mouse button to display the interior dimension.



Interior walls are measured from their main layer by default (see "Wall Type Definitions Dialog"). This and other dimension defaults (such as minimum number size) can be specified in the Dimension Defaults dialog. See "Dimension Defaults Dialog".

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