About dimensioning (ArcInfo and ArcEditor only)
About dimensioning (ArcInfo and ArcEditor only)
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NOTE: Although dimension classes can be both created and edited in ArcInfo and ArcEditor, they are read-only in ArcView.
For many applications, plotting a map showing a feature's shape and some descriptive annotation is not sufficient for showing precise measurements or distances. Dimensions are a special kind of map annotation for showing just that—lengths or distances on a map. A dimension may indicate the length of a side of a building or land parcel, or it may indicate the distance between two features, such as a fire hydrant and the corner of a building.
ArcGIS provides tools that allow you to store dimensions in your geodatabase. You can also create dimension styles to apply to your dimension features so they are consistent with your application standards. ArcGIS supports a number of dimension types as well as methods for constructing them. Dimensions can be created automatically from features or by using the rich set of construction tools available in ArcMap.
Dimensions in the geodatabase explains how dimension types, dimension styles, and dimension feature classes work within the geodatabase.
