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Menu: Review ➤ Measure ➤ Measure Shortest Distance
To clear measuring lines
■ Open the Measure Tools window, and click Clear
.
Menu: Review ➤ Measure ➤ Clear
To convert measurements into redlines
1 Open the Measure Tools window, and take the desired measurements, for example, distance between two
points.
2 Click Convert to Redline
in the Measure Tools window.
The end markers, lines, and dimension label (if any) of your current measurement are now converted to a
redline, and stored in the current viewpoint.
Comments and Redlines
Add Comments and Redlines
You can add comments to viewpoints, viewpoint animations, selection and search sets, clash results, and timeliner
tasks.
Redline tools enable you to add review annotations to viewpoints, and clash detection results.
Using redline tools is mutually exclusive to using
navigation modes and SteeringWheels, so that when you are
redlining you cannot navigate and vice versa.
Redline Tags
Redline tags combine the features of redlining, viewpoints and comments into a single, easy to use review tool.
This allows you to tag anything you want to identify in the model scene. A viewpoint is automatically created
for you, and you can add a comment and status to the tag.
For example, during a review session, you locate an item in the scene that is incorrectly sized or positioned. You
can tag this item, stating the problem, save your review results as an NWF file, and pass the file to the design
team. The design team can search the file, for any tags of status 'new', and locate your review comments. Once
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