Measuring

Measuring lets you display the distance between points, objects and page elements on the page using a dedicated Measure Tool. An Area Tool additionally measures the area of one or more objects, plus the perimeter of a shape and open curve lengths.

Measuring with the Measure Tool

The Measure Tool lets you accurately measure the distance between a fixed point and an object's edge, corner, center or at the intersection of two objects vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Curves and page elements such as page center, edge and edges (corners) can also be measured to. The reverse is also true—you can measure from any page element to any point or an object's edge, corner or at object intersection. You can even measure between placed guides.

Measuring guides with the Measure Tool

Measure Tool: (A) Point - Point (horizontally, vertically, diagonally), (B) Point - Curve, (C) Point - Center, (D) Point - Line, (E) Point - Guide, (F) Point - Page center, (G) Point - Page center (tangent; with projection line), (H) Point - Page edge and (I) Point - Page edge at Page center and (J) Along a diagonal straight line.

The Measure Tool is also plane-aware, so measurement can be made along the axes of isometric or axonometric grids.

Measuring with the Area Tool

This tool displays the area, total perimeter length or specific straight-line segment lengths of an object when you tap on the object's fill or stroke.

Measuring single-object areas with the Area Tool

Single-object area/perimeter measurement with the Area Tool: (A) Area of a closed object, (B) Perimeter of a object, (C) Straight-line 'cusped' segment length on the object.

You can also calculate the area of multiple objects by tapping an initial object and using modifier keys to include further objects.

Measuring multi-object areas with the Area Tool
Multi-object area measurement of selected objects with the Area Tool.
Measure Tool To display distance measurements:
  1. Select the Measure Tool.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Tap-drag from a start point to an end point.
    • Tap for a start point, then tap for an end point.

Deselect Use Deselect at the bottom left of the screen to clear any measurement.

Area Tool To display area measurements:
  1. With the Move Tool active, select the object(s).
  2. From the Measure Tool flyout, select the Area Tool. The target objects shown in blue.

The context toolbar will display the total area measured (the leftmost value).

Area Tool To display perimeter measurements:
  1. With the Move Tool active, select the object.
  2. From the Measure Tool flyout, select the Area Tool.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • For an object's full perimeter length: With the context toolbar's Perimeter Mode set to Full edges, tap on the target object's perimeter. The red outline indicates the length to be calculated.
    • For a specific straight-line segment length(s): With the context toolbar's Perimeter Mode set to Cusped segments, tap on a specific segment. The red outline indicates the length to be calculated. Optionally, for multi-segment perimeter measurements, you can tap additional adjacent or non-adjacent segments to include/exclude them in the calculation.

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