Distance

The Distance [Ctrl+D] button provides measuring the distance between two points on the drawing.

The Distance [Ctrl+D]

button (Viewer tab -> Measure -> Distance) provides measuring the distance between two points on the drawing in the planes parallel to the plane XY. In the classical menu the command is situated in the Tools menu and on the Measure toolbar.

The measurements are performed with the help of the mouse. The starting and the end point are specified. The snap is available, that simplifies the process of getting the distances. The mode Ortho is unavailable. All the results are displayed in the panel "Measure" and are stored in the Measure window. Previous measurements are separated from the current ones with a dash-line. Clearing the panel is performed automatically after closing the program or by the user (for more details see the topic Measure Panel). At the moment of measuring it is possible to scale and move the drawing with the help of the mouse scroll and its right button. You can quit the measure mode by pressing Esc.

o	Distance is the distance between the two points.

o	Angle in XY Plain is the angle value between the vector of the specified line and the X axis of XY plain.

o	Angle to XY Plain is the angle value between the vector of the specified line and its projection in XY plain.

o	Delta X is the length of the measured line's projection on axis X

o	Delta Y is the length of the measured line's projection on axis Y

o	Delta Z is the length of the measured line's projection on axis Z

o	Set size as: - with the help of this option you can give your drawing any values that you need by entering just one known value. The other values will change proportionately.

To get the expected values in the Measure panel, you should preliminarily set the initial measure units of the drawing and the ones in which the measure results should be displayed. Depending on the chosen units the scale factor taking part in the interconversion of the initial units into the displayed ones is calculated. There are three available preset categories of units: meters, millimeters and inches. One can set a customer scale factor. All the settings of the measure instruments are available from the Measure tab of the Options window.

The Measure panel for the instrument Distance is a little different from the one for the other measure instruments: there is the additional field "Set size as..." which allows to preset a common for all the measure instruments scale factor that influences the results of the following measurements.

Note: For exact measurements we recommend to use the Snap

entity (Editor Tab -> Snap).