From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
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Taking measurements - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
Taking measurements
In this lesson, we're going to do something a little different. Instead of creating new geometry, we're going to verify geometry that's been provided for us. In this lesson, we'll explore several ways to take measurements. On my screen, I have an architectural example. This is a floor plan of a hotel room. I'd like to take some measurements in this drawing. So, I'm going to come up to the Utilities panel, and we can find the measuring tools right here. At first glance, you may think there's only one tool, Distance, which is the default. If however, I come down to the lower half of this icon and click, I can open a menu showing me all of the measurement options. I'm going to start with the distance. To find the distance, all we have to do is pick two points and AutoCAD will tell us how far apart they are. For example, let's find out how wide this nightstand is. I'll grab the endpoint on one side and the endpoint on the other. And we can see it measures 2 feet, 7 9/16 inches. We also…
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