{"id":263,"date":"2015-12-21T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/return-of-the-dimensions\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:16:09","slug":"return-of-the-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/return-of-the-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Not sure if you&#8217;ve heard yet, but there was a little movie that was released last week that involved droids, Jedi, and lightsabers. Playing off that excitement (or by now you might be sick of it &#8211;apologies if so), here is a QUICK TIP involving a BB-8 droid I&#8217;ve designed.&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>As you probably know, you can define sketch dimensions while sketching, but what I didn&#8217;t know was how to interact with them while sketching. Take a look at the following QUICK TIP to see how you can do this:&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><CENTER><IFRAME src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9Lo-XoxG84\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/IFRAME><\/CENTER><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>In hindsight it&#8217;s actually pretty intuitive; &#8216;tab&#8217; is usually&nbsp;a way to toggle between inputs, but I think I shy away from hitting &#8216;return&#8217; (or is it &#8216;enter&#8217;?) because I thought it would drop the sketched entity&nbsp;where my mouse was or close the sketch. Oh well, now I know&nbsp;better&nbsp;and can get my sketches done in less time.&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>Happy Holidays!&nbsp;<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Return of the Dimension GIF.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/207340i408E4501472D0237\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Return of the Dimension GIF.gif\" \/><\/P><P>In this QUICK TIP, we&#8217;ll show you how to&nbsp;efficiently add dimensions in sketches.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[670],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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