From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.

Using the MEASURE command

Using the MEASURE command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Using the MEASURE command

- [Instructor] So here we are with another AutoCAD tip and trick. And we're going to be looking at the Measure command in AutoCAD. Now I'm not talking the Measure Geometry command I'm talking the Measure command where you can place a known number of AutoCAD point objects along an object at a measured distance. So we've got a new drawing for you. As usual, you can download that from your lynda.com exercise files if you want to follow along with the video. And, similar to some of the point style tips and tricks that we've had, I've got a single line floating here in the drawing like that on the Objects layer. If I go to the Layers Panel here you'll see that we've got a Points layer current ready to place our points measured along the line object. Now, before you go in and start placing these point objects at measured distances always check in your Utilities Panel in here, Points Style just to make sure you've got a decent point style selected. Not the dot, not the nothing selection…

Contents