User`s guide

Lesson: Using Inquiry Commands ■ 347
Exercise: Obtain Geometric Information
In this exercise, you use the Inquiry commands to
obtain geometric information about objects and
points in a drawing.
You obtain information about the numbered objects
and points in the following illustration.
Completing the Exercise
To complete the exercise, follow the
steps in this book or in the onscreen
exercise. In the onscreen list of
chapters and exercises, click Chapter
4: Drawing Organization and Inquiry
Commands. Click Exercise: Obtain
Geometric Information.
1. Open M_Inquiry.dwg.
2. On the ribbon, click Home tab > Utilities panel.
If the Utilities panel is not visible, right-click
anywhere on the ribbon and then click Panels >
Utilities panel.
3.
On the Utilities panel click Measure and then
click Distance. Use the Endpoint object snap
and select points (7) and (8).
■ What is the distance? ________________
■ What is the angle? __________________
4. On the Utilities panel click Measure and then
click Radius. Select circle (2) and press ENTER.
Repeat this procedure for circle (3) and circle
(4).
■ What is the radius for circle (2)? _________
■ What is the radius for circle (3)? _________
■ What is the radius for circle (4)? _________
Note: The List command also displays the
radius of circles.