Measure Panel

The Measure panel is a floating resizable movable panel. It displays all the measurements in the current session of the program.

The panel appears automatically after selecting on of the measure instruments. After quitting the measure mode the panel is hidden. All the settings are performed in the tab Measure of the dialog box Options: the visibility of the panel, the scale factor, and the units of measurements are set.

In the mode of measuring the distance there is a possibility to set a scale factor of measuring directly during the work with a drawing. The coefficient is calculated automatically from the correlation between the entered value and the real dimension of the distance under consideration. Entering the value is performed in the filed "Set size as" of the panel "Measure".

Example of using Set size as setting: the drawing contains a rectangle, the length of which is twice as big as the width. Measure the length and enter its value equal to 100 in the "Set size as:" field and press Enter. After that measure the width of the rectangle. As a result its width will be equal to 50. All the other parameters are calculated analogically. The scale factor is set only for the current drawing and is cleared after its closure. The user can return to the default scale factor equal to 1 in the settings window anytime.

Copy. [Ctrl+C] It is possible to copy the results of measurements to the clipboard using the context menu which can be convenient if you need to copy this or that value and, say, attribute it to another entity. So you can select the necessary value and enter it in the corresponding "Properties" cell.

o	Select all. [Ctrl+A] Use this option to select all the measurement results contained in the "Measure" window.

o	Go to... [Alt+G] Finds the measurement under the necessary number in the "Measure" window.

The option Set size as... allows to get the precise measurements of any parts of the drawing even if the elements of the drawing are performed in different scales. This option automatically calculates the scale factor as a correlation between the given value and the real one. The Value of the scale factor is specified in the field Scale factor of the Measure tab of the Options dialog box.

Suppose there is a drawing of a detail and its fragment in a larger scale. To get the real size of the increased fragment of the detail while measuring it is necessary to set the corresponding scale factor. Let's do that with the instrument Set size as...

2.	Measure any part of the main view of the detail using the snap mode [F9]. For example, measure the top part of the detail, the diameter of which is equal to 40. The measure line is colored in the picture in red. The results will be shown in the panel Measure.

Set a new value for the measured distance. For the fragment of the detail to be measured in real values in the panel Measure, enter a new value for the measured distance in the Set size as... field minding that the detail is shown in the scale of 2:1. So, the new value for the measured distance will be equal to 20. Enter this value into the field Set size as... and press Enter.