Creating EDA Markup Measure Entities

When marking up EDA files, in addition to all the markup options available for 2D files, you can create markup measure entities. The measure options in Markup mode work slightly different than in View mode.

Note: When you are creating a markup entity, you can press the Escape key to cancel.

When measuring in Markup mode, the specified measurement lines and values are displayed on the current active markup layer as entities. These entities can be moved, resized, or deleted. You can also modify the font of a measure entity, align a “free snap” measure entity to the horizontal or vertical axis, as well as add units of measure and symbols to a measurement and have them appear on the drawing.

AutoVue provides the option to “snap” to geometrical or electrical points on the drawing.

In Markup mode, you can choose from several measure options to create markup measure entities. From the Markup menu, select Add Entity, and then select Measurement to access the following measure options:


Option	Description
Angle	Measure the angle between selected points. From the Markup Entity toolbar, you can also click Angle .
Arc	Measure an arc entity. From the Markup Entity toolbar, you can also click Arc .
Area	Measure a selected area. From the Markup Entity toolbar, you can also click Area .
Distance	Measure the distance between two points. From the Markup Entity toolbar, you can also click Distance .
Minimum Distance	Measure the minimum distance between entities. From the Markup Entity toolbar, click Minimum Distance .