Skim measurements with Quick Measure

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Now we'll take a look at some of the

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inquiry commands and autocad such as the quick measure,

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we're gonna pick the backyard grass area again

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and I'm gonna come to the home tab over to the utilities panel.

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And when I click the measure drop down, I'm gonna select quick.

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What's cool about this command is all I have to do is hover

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in an area

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and notice it's giving me the dimensions for that particular

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object.

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Let's take a look at another one. If I hover over the house, you can see the

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measures across at 50 ft and it measures deep at 30 ft.

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Another thing that we can do with the

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quick measure command

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notice in corners, it shows the angle

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anywhere. There's a perfect 90. It just shows a squared off symbol.

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And when you have a closed poly line, like either the yard area or

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the pool area

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you can press and hold

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and then it will fill in

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and show you the area and the parameter for that closed poly line.

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And just like that, that's how the quick measure command works.

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One thing to note here with the quick measure command,

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you can also select several areas at the same time with control and deselect them.

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Again,

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if we take a look at the drop down under the measure button,

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we also have the regular distance,

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which you could find a distance from endpoint to endpoint.

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And it echoes that information back on the command line.

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And also notice

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the other commands available for radius

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angle

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area,

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volume,

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quick

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mode

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and exit. These are all the same buttons that we have available over here as well.

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Each of these are considered an inquiry command

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and will report the properties of

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the objects data back to the command line.

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As you can see dynamic input selection, cycling

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and inquiry commands such as quick measure,

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give you great functionality that is easy to use

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to make you more productive on any design project.