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Measure Lengths

Ribbon: Top Mechanical Draw > Mechanical Annotations > Measure Lengths

• What
• Measures and sums the length of lines, arcs, circles, polylines, splines and ellipses.

• Why
• To display on the drawing, without using the dimensions, the sum of the lengths of different selected entities.

• How
• Select the lines, arcs, circles, polylines, splines and ellipses, the sum of their lengths will be displayed and it will be requested to insert a text describing this data in the drawing. At a affirmative response, insert the text’s height, rotation angle and insertion point.

Example 107. Measure Lengths

Command: Top_Lunghezza <ENTER> Select
            circle, arcs or lines… Select objects: Select objects:
            <ENTER> Selected entities: 3 Total length: 76.5 Insert text
            [Y/N] <N>: Y <ENTER> Text dimension <3>:
            <ENTER> Text Insertion Point: Text’s insertion Angle
            <0>: <ENTER>