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Measuring tools

Measuring tools - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Measuring tools

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- [Instructor] For all of the information that we give AutoCAD to create our geometry there are many times where we need to get information back out from our drawing. To that end AutoCAD has a number of measuring tools that allow us to find things like distance, angles, or areas of our geometry. First, I want to go up to format, and units and make sure that my drawing is in architectural units, and that my angle is being read in decimal degrees. I also want to make sure that the precision for this is at least two decimal places, and then I'll press okay. I need to know the overall length of my pool. So I'm going to use the quadrant points, and I'm going to go up to tools, inquiry, distance. I'll choose my quadrant point here, and my quadrant point here. We can see that my pool is just over 34 foot long. Now to escape to get out of the tool, and now I need to figure out what angle these steps have been rotated at. They're not quite horizontal or perpendicular, they've been rotated down…

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