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We've already used Dimension Space to space our 50, 75 and 100 linear dimensions there. There are two other nice new features available, though, in AutoCAD 2009 that allow you to work with your Drafting, your Dimensioning and your Leader Lines. Now, as I said in the previous exercise, we have some cardinal sins of Dimensioning here. We've got leader lines crossing dimension Lines. Now, that can cause confusion because the intersections there might not, on a busy drawing, be that obvious and the dimensions can be mistaken for leader lines. So we need to break the leader lines with the dimensions that are crossing them. So use the Dimension Break Command here and it say select the dimension to add or remove the break to. I'm going to go for my front view of bracket leader line here like so. I now select the objects that I'm going to use to break that leader line. So it's going to be my 75 dimension and also my 100 dimension and as you can see, the leader line is broken with that distance of 3.75 that is in the Dimension Style that we set previously. Fine. Now press enter. That is now complete. Let's do that on the other view, the side view. So it's break again here. I want to break the leader line. I select the 100 dimension to break it and there's the break and it's Enter to finish. Now, the other little tool that's very useful is sometimes you might want to what they call oblique a linear dimension to make it stand out on a drawing. I'm going to do that to the 100 dimension here on the side view and oblique is available by clicking on the little arrow here and it's this icon here, Oblique on the Dimensions Panel on the Annotate tab. I click on it and it says select the object. So I'm going to select the dimension. It's going to be the 100 dimension like so. I then press Enter to confirm that and it asks for an obliquing angle. I'm going to put in there 70 degrees. Now remember, horizontally to the right is zero. Coming upwards towards the vertical is going to be the angle that is going to go in here. So 70 is coming upwards from the horizontal towards the vertical So when I press Enter now, you'll see that those lines there are at 70 degrees from the right-hand horizontal, the zero line. Notice the break stays in place for the leader line there as well.