You can use object groups to specify different objects to be dimensioned on different dimension lines.
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On the
Drawings & reports tab, click
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Click
Dimensioning, and go to the
Parts tab
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Add the desired object groups to dimensioning rules by clicking
Add rule and selecting the rule from the list in the
Object group column.
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If needed, you can create new object groups by clicking
Object group. For example, add object group rules for beams of different size.
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For each object group, select the
Positioning option, the
Horizontal position option, and the
Vertical position option, depending on the type of the objects in the group.
For example, for beam groups, set
Horizontal position to
Left side to position the beam dimensions to the left side of the grid.
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If needed, in the
Tag column, enter the text tags that you want to display for the different object groups in the drawing. For example, enter the size of the beam.
Example
In this example, several beam groups were created, one for each beam size to be dimensioned, then the position for the dimensions in different groups was selected, and tags were added displayed for each group: