Area Tool

As well as individual objects, you can measure multiple objects' areas by selecting them. The tool will also calculate object areas with holes in them, without the hole being included in the measurement.

The tool also lets you scale your document or the currently selected artboard by either setting a scale factor (e.g., 1:100, 1cm:1km) or by scaling to a known distance (e.g., 10 meters) on a currently measured object dimension.

Settings

The following settings can be adjusted from the context toolbar:

Drawing Scale—sets the drawing scale for the document or currently selected artboard. By default, all measurements are made using this scale setting.
Perimeter Mode—calculates perimeter length, on hover over of any curve segment, using one of two modes:
- Full edges—measurements are based on the entire perimeter length, encompassing all of its segments.
- Cusped Segments—measurements are based on the length of a specific hovered-over straight-line segment (i.e., cusped).
Area/Perimeter/Including holes readouts—displays these measurement types for one or more objects when they are selected.

Settings

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