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Measure geometry: Working with the new Quick Measure option (only AutoCAD 2021)

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Measure geometry: Working with the new Quick Measure option (only AutoCAD 2021)

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to have a look now at the new Quick Measure command available in the latest version of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2021. Now, before we do that, we've got a new drawing for you to use to follow along with the tips and tricks video. The drawing is called New Garden_004, you can download it from the library as usual to follow along with the video. When you open up the drawing, you'll see it's a little garden project with a garden boundary, with some blue lines representing the footpath and an orange arc representing the edge of the hard standing in the garden project. Now, the Quick Measure command is available on the Home tab on the ribbon of AutoCAD 2021, and it's in the Utilities panel. So if I click on the fly-out here for Measure, you'll see there's Quick Measure there. So if I click on Quick Measure now, I can move the crosshair around, and you'll notice as I move around, I'll start getting all these numbers appearing in a…

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