Placing points on the sheet, the segment types, and typing an exact distance.
A measurement is a drawing attached to an item. Select the item in the Materials panel to arm it, then draw on the sheet. The quantity rolls up to the item as you go.
An item's Type fixes what you are placing:
Escape cancels here. That is the opposite of the markup tools, where Escape finishes the shape with the points already placed. On a takeoff drawing, Enter is the key that keeps your work.
A run does not have to be straight. Switch type mid-drawing and the following segments change; the ones already placed keep the type they were drawn with.
You do not have to find a dimension by eye. While drawing, just start typing a number - an entry box opens at the pointer.
Escape closes the box without placing anything. This is how a 240-foot run gets measured off a sheet whose dimension string you can read but whose linework you cannot trust.
A finished drawing can be picked back up. Select it and press C, or right-click it and choose Continue, and the next click carries on from where it left off. Use it when a run crosses a match line, or when a shape was finished early by mistake.
Each drawing appears under its item in the panel:
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| Page | The sheet it is on. |
| Layer | Its layer. |
| Depth | A recorded depth. See the note below. |
| Pitch | Slope for a sloped area. See Pitch. |
| Value | What this one drawing measures. |
Depth here does not drive any quantity. It is recorded, saved with the project and included in the export, but no calculation reads it. A volume unit like CY gets its depth from the unit's own calculator instead - see Units. Typing a depth in this column and expecting cubic yards to change is the mistake this field invites.