Using Drawing Measurements

• Using Drawing Measurements
• • Overview
  • Calibrating Measurements
  • Using Drawing Measurements
  • • Line Measurement
    • Elliptical Measurement
    • Rectangular Measurement
    • Perimeter Measurement
    • Polygonal Area Measurement
  • Known Issues

Overview

When viewing any blueprint or other architectural drawing, users can make measurements directly within the drawing using the Drawing Measurements tool.

Calibrating Measurements

In order to take accurate measurements, the Drawing Measurements tool must be calibrated to the scale of the drawing. Press the Drawing Measurements icon () to access the Drawing Measurements toolset.

Press the Calibrate icon () to activate the Calibrate Scale tool. Draw a line over any known measurement in the drawing. A pop-up window will be displayed which is used to define the measurement settings.

Edit the Calibrate Length field to calibrate the drawn line to the known distance in your preferred units. Once the length is calibrated, the Scale field will show the scale used by the Drawing Measurements tool.

Using Drawing Measurements

Once the Drawing Measurement tool has been calibrated, measurements can be added to the drawing. There are several measuring tools available in the toolset. To access the complete set of tools, press the Drawing Measurements icon to open the toolset menu. Select the desired tool from the menu. The measuring tool selected from this menu will be the icon displayed in the Annotation toolbar when in use. Each of these measuring tools is described in more detail below.

Users can press Remove to delete the annotation.

Users also adjust the scale, line color, line opacity, and line thickness of the tool in Edit mode.

Line Measurement

Use the Distance tool () to place a line anywhere within the drawing to measure the distance.

Elliptical Measurement

Use the Ellipse Area tool () to measure the square footage of any ellipses drawn.

Rectangular Measurement

Use the Rectangle Area tool () to measure the square footage of any rectangle drawn.

Perimeter Measurement

Use the Perimeter tool () to measure the length of the perimeter of any shape on your drawing.

Polygonal Area Measurement

Use the Polygon Area tool () to measure the area of any shape on your drawing.

Known Issues

The following known issues are currently being worked on and are expected to be resolved in upcoming releases.

Feature	Summary	Description
Line Measurement	Autosnapping the measurement line, perpendicular to a wall.	When adding a new measurements to the drawing, the autosnapping feature will snap to the nearest line, but does not snap perpendicularly to that line.
Calibrate Measurement	Editing the value of calibration length.	When editing the calibration length, users will notice a bug with decimal entry, where the decimal will not show up when entered as part of a number. The workaround is to start with the decimal point first, and then type the value around it. Additionally, it is only possible to enter measurements in feet or inches but not both.
Annotations	Saving drawing measurements.	When leaving a drawing after having made measurements, the measurements are not automatically saved as annotations. Additionally, calibration information is not saved.