Editing a measurement

Editing a measurement

You can also modify a measurement at a later stage. You can edit the measurement by changing the polyline shape or its dimensions. Select the polyline and move its nodes or right-click on it to show the shortcut menu, including the options 'Add node', 'Delete node' and ‘Figure data’.

Adding a node

By selecting this option, you will 'Add a node' in the selected closed polygon or polygonal line (polyline).

By clicking on any point in the perimeter of a polygon or a polyline, you can insert a node there. You can then move that node and view the change in the polygon or the polyline.

Deleting a node

By selecting this option, you will 'Delete a node' from the selected closed polygon or polygonal line (polyline). By clicking on any node of the polygon or polyline, you can remove it and view the resulting change in the polygon or polyline.

Figure data

In many measurement types, there are parameters the values of which are different in each node of the measurement. For example, if you perform an area  measurement perpendicular to the drawing without specifying a common height, then whenever you create a new node in the measurement polyline, you will be prompted for the value of height at that node. Other examples of this behavior include length  measurements with an extra length or manual length input and volume  measurements using linear items. You can modify the values of such parameters by selecting ‘Figure data’. Then you can edit the table that is opened, where the nodes are listed in one column and the parameter values in the other. In the previous example, even if you have chosen a common height, you could still edit each node’s height via the same method.