MEASURE — Measure

Places points or blocks at measured intervals along an object.

• Command: MEASURE · Global name: _MEASURE · Alias: ME
• Ribbon: Home › Draw
• Menu: Draw

Places points (or a block) along an object at intervals of a given length, measured from one of its ends. The object is not cut.

Usage

1. Enter MEASURE (or ME) or click Measure.
2. Select the object near the end you want to measure from.

Select object to measure:

3. Enter the length of each segment.

Specify length of segment or [Block]:

Options

• Block (B): instead of points, inserts a block of the drawing at each mark, rotated to follow the direction of the object at that point or not rotated.

Enter name of block to insert:
Align block with object? [Yes/No] <Y>:
Specify length of segment:

Notes

• Lines, arcs, circles, polylines, ellipses and splines can be used. On an open object, measuring starts at the end nearest the point where it was selected; the last segment may be shorter. If the last mark falls exactly on the far end, it is placed too.
• If the length is so small that more than 100,000 objects would be created, the program says so and creates none.
• The points are shown with the style set by PTYPE.

See also

DIVIDE · POINT · PTYPE · BLOCK