Measure Toolbar

By default, the Measure toolbar provides ready access to the Measure and Calibrate tools as well as the measurement modes.

If the toolbar is currently hidden, go to View > Toolbars and select it to show it.

Measure (M): Launches the Measure tool and opens the Measure tab.

 Calibrate: Calibrates the document's scale to allow accurate measurements to be taken.

 Length (SHIFT+ALT+L): Calculates a singular linear measurement.

Area (SHIFT+ALT+A): Calculates the area of a simple rectangle or of an irregular, polygonal shape.

Perimeter (SHIFT+ALT+P): Calculates the length of all the sides of a given shape or multi-segment line.

 Diameter (SHIFT+ALT+D): Calculates the diameter of a circular shape.

 Angle (SHIFT+ALT+G): Measures a given angle as defined by three points.

 Radius (SHIFT+ALT+U): Measures the radius a circle, defined either center-out or by indicating any three points along its circumference.

 Volume (SHIFT+ALT+V): Calculates the volume of an area with a defined depth.

 Count (SHIFT+ALT+C): Places a markup for each mouse click, associating a running total of counts with each markup as it is placed.

 Cutout menu: Contains tools for cutting out or subtracting a polygonal or elliptical area from an existing Area or Volume measurement.

 Dynamic Fill (J): Automatically creates Spaces and measurement markups from any shape on the content layer of a drawing.