Tour 5:  Tracing Distances and Areas

Tracing a Path allows you to very accurately measure the length of a road, river, trail feature or measure an enclosed area.

1. Temporary Measurement:  

Use the Bombsight Tool  

Right-click the mouse and select ‘[Zero Traced Distance]’) to reset the accumulated distance to zero.

Now press and hold the Left Mouse button, while dragging the cursor along the trail path. When you reach the end of the trail release the Left Mouse button. As you trace a path, a blue trail will be left behind.

The float distance, as traced is 8.61134 Miles.

Press and hold the Alt key to subtract distance from the total.

2. Permanent Draw Pencil Tool

Hold down right mouse button and trace the path or area you want to measure.

When done release the mouse button and a "Display Distance and Area menu will appear. 

You can determine the attributes of the pencil line by right clicking the mouse and bringing up the following menu:

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