Using Adobe Acrobat 2: PDF Drawing Measurement

[Music] welcome to the channel today we're going to talk about how to use the building feature in acrobat to measure the pdf drawing the first thing we're going to do is to activate the measurement tool click on the toolbox button which says more tools then find the measuring feature click open now this has been added to your toolbar when you click on that then you should be able to see something like a measuring tool click on that again now we have distance parameter or area the next thing we do is to have the right scale let's check the drawing scale you can see the scale is according to equal to one foot right click on the mouse right you have to do a right click then you will see something like a change scale ratio in the precision a quarter inch equal to one foot that would be one inch equal to four feet we're trying to measure the length of the opening by picking the distance tool you can see the length of the opening is roughly about six feet when you're done you can pick your measurement and delete it if we want to find out the perimeter of the working closet what we can do is on the measuring tool pick a second button make sure the scale is still one inch equal to four feet go around the closet click on each corner make sure the final point will be the same point you start with so this way we form or close the loop the perimeter is around 20 feet let's click on the measuring tool again and make sure your scale is the one inch equal to four feet this time we're going to do the area of the bedroom all you have to do is just click the corners of the bedroom but when you get to the final point make sure it goes back to the point where you start to form a closed loop now we can see the square feet is about 141 the next thing we're going to do is to measure the pavement yeah the scale this time is one inch equal to 20 feet therefore you will have to right click change the scale ratio one inch equal to 20 feet click the last button which is the area measurement you have to click corners when you get to the curve of the portion make sure you slow down and click as many points as you could so you're tracing need to follow the shape make sure your final point will be the same point you start with now we're getting about 1200 square feet of the paving today we're looking at a free feature building adobe acrobat software i wish you enjoyed this exercise we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: Ding's Estimating Books

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Keywords: PDF, Adobe, Quantity Survey, Construction Estimating, Construction, Drawings, Architecture, Acrobat, Measurement

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Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021