From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Utilities and Properties

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- [Instructor] We're in our drawing now which is 00-Ground-1031 SouthEast Madison.dwg. You should recognize it from some of the previous chapters in the course, if you just want to make sure that you download this particular DWG file for this particular chapter, before we jump into each of the measure tools that are available in the AutoCAD ribbon. Once you've got the drawing open and you're in the model tab we're going to zoom in on this top right corner here where we can see the conference room and some desks and some chairs and some windows and so on. Now, we're going to go to the home tab on the ribbon into the utilities panel and click on the measure, fly out. I'm going to select quick, like so and this displays measurements of the geometry near the cursor in a 2D plan view as it says there on the screen. Now the benefit of this is the more you zoom in the more information you can find as I move around it's kind of…

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