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Adding measurements

Adding measurements - PlanGrid Tutorial

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Adding measurements

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- [Instructor] In addition to applying markups like clouds, and arrows and text, there's another special type of markup in PlanGrid called the measuring markup or measuring tool. So that's represented here in the toolbar by the little icon that looks like a ruler. And when I click on that, it's asking me to open up a calibration menu. So before I can measure anything, if I tried to measure anything first, let's say add a ruler, it's gonna give me an error that says first you have to calibrate your measurement annotations. So I'm gonna click on OK. What this means is it's asking me to find a known measurement on the drawing somewhere, and use that to calibrate everything else that I'm gonna measure. So, I'm gonna zoom way in here, and this says this is a three foot wide concrete sidewalk, so I'm gonna go ahead and calibrate off of that. So I'm gonna click, again, on Open Calibration menu, and I'm gonna choose the calibration ruler, is what it's called. And now I'm gonna take my cross…

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