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Radial dimensioning

Horizontal, vertical and aligned dimensioning

Big radius dimensioning

Ribbon: Home, Annotate – Dimensions > Jogged
Menu: Dimensions – Big radius
Toolbar: Utilities –
Command line: DIMJOGGED, DJO
The big radius command creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs.

To draw the big radius:

Start the Auto command.
Select the BigRadius option in the command line or context menu.
Place the cursor over the arc to show its dynamic highlighting. Left click to confirm the dimensioning:
Choose the location of the dimension:
Left click to fix the chosen location of the dimension:

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Radial dimensioning

Horizontal, vertical and aligned dimensioning

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