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- 11.4 MEASURE DISTANCE
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- The MEASURE DISTANCE command can be used to do three things; it can be used
- to find the x/y coordinates of a single point on the drawing, it can measure
- the distance between two points on the drawing, or it can be used to find
- the total length of a vector list.
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- COMMAND FORMAT
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- #MEASURE DISTANCE :Loc x1 [x2 x3 ... xn]
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- If only a single location is entered, the x/y coordinates of the point
- entered will be displayed to the console window.
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- If two locations are entered ( 'x1' and 'x2' ), the absolute distance
- between the points plus the delta-x and delta-y distances will be displayed.
- ( See fig. 11.3 ).
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- If more than two locations are entered, the combined total of the distances
- between each pair of locations will be displayed.
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