Having the ability to quickly add accurate measurements to markups can save a lot of time, and make planning and review processes a lot simpler. If measurements are important to you and your team, you should try our advanced tool set in Drawboard PDF PRO.
Drawboard PDF PRO includes the ability to calibrate the Measurement Tools which then allows you to scale your documents and then measure lines and area as a part of your annotations.
Simply calibrate the Measurement Tools by defining a known scale/measurement, which will then set a scale for your document accordingly. The units of measurement can be set, or updated, at any time in your settings, and ensure that your markups are accurate.
Once the document has been calibrated, you can measure out linear distances or rectangular/polygon areas. The properties of these shapes can be changed by using the radial menu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmDDw477Vk
An additional feature that is part of the measurement toolset is the digital protractor. Compatible with Surface Dial for easier access, the protractor makes measuring angles easy.
You can set an angle anywhere between 0° to 360° with your finger/pen/mouse by sliding it radially around the protractor tool, draw with any ink tool to obtain a ruled line under the ruler guides, and move the protractor around the screen by dragging it from the center of the tool.
Similar to the Measure tools above, simply set the measurement calibration from the measurement tool set within the radial menu to get started.
You can get access to all of our measurement tools by upgrading to Drawboard PDF PRO. By upgrading you not only get access to measurement tools, you also get access to all of our other PRO features, including Text Review Export, being able to split and merge documents, grid and line templates and overlays, and generating custom line styles.
Access Drawboard PDF for free from the Microsoft Store today
Learn more about using Measurement tools in our Knowledge Base
Learn more about using Protractor tools in our Knowledge base
Having the ability to quickly add accurate measurements to markups can save a lot of time, and make planning and review processes a lot simpler. If measurements are important to you and your team, you should try our advanced tool set in Drawboard PDF PRO.
Drawboard PDF PRO includes the ability to calibrate the Measurement Tools which then allows you to scale your documents and then measure lines and area as a part of your annotations.
Simply calibrate the Measurement Tools by defining a known scale/measurement, which will then set a scale for your document accordingly. The units of measurement can be set, or updated, at any time in your settings, and ensure that your markups are accurate.
Once the document has been calibrated, you can measure out linear distances or rectangular/polygon areas. The properties of these shapes can be changed by using the radial menu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmDDw477Vk
An additional feature that is part of the measurement toolset is the digital protractor. Compatible with Surface Dial for easier access, the protractor makes measuring angles easy.
You can set an angle anywhere between 0° to 360° with your finger/pen/mouse by sliding it radially around the protractor tool, draw with any ink tool to obtain a ruled line under the ruler guides, and move the protractor around the screen by dragging it from the center of the tool.
Similar to the Measure tools above, simply set the measurement calibration from the measurement tool set within the radial menu to get started.
You can get access to all of our measurement tools by upgrading to Drawboard PDF PRO. By upgrading you not only get access to measurement tools, you also get access to all of our other PRO features, including Text Review Export, being able to split and merge documents, grid and line templates and overlays, and generating custom line styles.
Access Drawboard PDF for free from the Microsoft Store today
Learn more about using Measurement tools in our Knowledge Base
Learn more about using Protractor tools in our Knowledge base
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Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
