Measurements allow you to rapidly verify distances, lengths and areas in the 2D view, 3D view and walk mode view.
The figures below show a measurement in the 2D view and a measurement in the 3D view.
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Create Measurements
Go to the view in which you want to create a measurement.
Note that measurements in the walk mode view are only possible if the panorama image contains depth information.Click icon
in the toolbar on the right side.Click the point in the view where you want to start the measurement.
Drag the mouse to the next measurement point and click.
Repeat the above step if you need more than one measurement point.
To finish a length measurement, double-click the end measurement point.
To finish a perimeter measurement, click the first measurement point.
If you measure a perimeter in the 2D view, the complete perimeter as well as square feet/meters are calculated automatically, see figure above.
To cancel a measurement and restart, right-click or press the ESC key.
To undo the last segment in a measurement, press the Backspace key. Then the solid line changes back to a dotted line and you can place the measurement again.
Orbis Projects
Under certain circumstances, a measurement in Orbis waypoints may look a bit different. Instead of a crosshairs, the mouse pointer will be displayed as a zoom lens showing a section of the Orbis point cloud in a 1:1 ratio. (If you zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, the ratio will stay the same. )
The measurement works nearly the same as described above. The only difference for you while measuring is that the zoom lens will show you if the currently selected point works as 3D point for measurement. In this case, the center point of the zoom lens will turn green. If the point does not work as measurement point, the center point will turn red. To support smooth measurement, the zoom lens will remain anchored to the last valid detected measurement point if you move the mouse slightly to the left or right.
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Further Options in the Measurement Toolbar
: Convert a measurement into an annotation.
: Opens a dropdown with the copy to clipboard options. Available options are Copy all (default), Copy distance and Copy coordinate (for copy&paste the list of coordinates in Autodesk commands)
: Displays the 3D distance (default).
: Displays vertical and horizontal distances.
: Displays distances along the x, y and z axes.
: Delete a measurement.
Pressing the Shift key while placing measurement points will snap the measurement vertically or horizontally depending on the angle.
For more detailed information, see our Sphere XG User Manual.