From the course: Construction Drawings: BlueBeam for the iPad
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Scaling and measuring - Bluebeam Tutorial
From the course: Construction Drawings: BlueBeam for the iPad
Scaling and measuring
- [Voiceover] I said earlier that in order for these digital drawings to match the usefulness of their printed counterparts I need to be able to mark them up and I need to be able to set a scale and take measurements. So far I think we've covered the markup capabilities so let's go ahead and take a look at the built in measurement tools and see how they compare to the capabilities that we had when we used those old paper drawings. I'm gonna start by accessing the measuring tools that are located here on the left side of the screen. When I select the down arrow I wanna change from the tool chest view to the measurement view. And here you'll see I have a bunch of information that talks about the scale that I'm gonna use to measure things in this drawing. So you'll see here that the scale is currently set at one-quarter inch equals one foot. And if I go ahead and zoom in and scroll around my drawing a little bit you'll see that that is what the drawing says it's been set to, one-quarter…
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