- Click Home tab
Annotation panel
Linear.
At the Command prompt, enter dimlinear. - Press Enter to select the object to dimension, or specify the first and second extension line origins.
- Before specifying the dimension line location, you can override the dimension direction and edit the text, the text angle, or the dimension line angle:
- To rotate the extension lines, enter r (Rotated). Then enter the dimension line angle.
- To edit the text, enter m (multiline text). In the In-place Text Editor, revise the text. Click OK.
Editing within or overwriting the brackets (<>) changes or removes the dimension value calculated by the program. Adding text before or after the brackets appends text before or after the dimension value.
- To rotate the text, enter a (Angle). Then enter the text angle.
- Specify the dimension line location.