Autodesk AUTOSKETCH 8, User Manual

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Chapter 26 Making Inquiries
Displaying the Coordinates of a Point
AutoSketch allows you to determine the coordinates of a point you enter. On
the Inquire menu, click Coordinate to display both the world and page
coordinates of the point. World coordinates (based on the actual size of the
objects in your drawing) are measured from the drawing origin. Page coordi-
nates are measured from the lower left corner of the page. When the drawing
scale is 1:1 and the drawing origin is at the lower left corner of the page,
world and page coordinates are identical.
To display the coordinates of a point
1 On the Inquire menu, click Coordinate, or click the Inquire Coordinate
button on the All-In-One toolbar. If a selection set exists, it is temporarily
suspended and the selection handles are grayed.
2 Enter the point. The Coordinate dialog box appears displaying the
coordinates of the point you entered.
3 Click Close or click Inquire Again to display another coordinate, or click
the Copy button to copy the currently displayed coordinates to the
Clipboard.
Measuring Distances
Often, you need to know the distance between two points but you don’t
want to draw a dimension. For example, you might want to know the
distance between home plate and a point on the outfield fence in a drawing
of a baseball field. To measure this distance, simply enter two points and
AutoSketch calculates the distance between them. For information on
distance input methods, see “Entering Lengths” on page 120.
AutoSketch can also calculate the length associated with a specific entity.
This feature allows you to measure the length of a specific entity, such as a
line or one segment of a polyline. All entities except curves and dimensions
have an associated length. Polylines and polygons have a distance associated
with each segment. Symbols have a distance associated with each compo-
nent entity.