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Topic ClosedLet’s Go Jogging in AutoCAD Dimensions

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    Posted: 08.Mar.2010 at 17:11

I am finally back in my office after a few weeks in training and meetings…

I usually get the request to break or jog a dimension line from customers from the mechanical disciplines. They want to show a broken dimension or to shorten one of those long radius dimensions.

Let’s take the example of a heat exchanger that may be too long to show length to scale so you use the AutoCAD Express Tool Break-Line Symbol.

AutoCAD Break-line

How would I dimension this? In AutoCAD 2008 we added the DIMJOGLINE Command.

AutoCAD Jogged Dimension

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Cheers,
Shaan

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