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Using the Height tool

How to use the Height tool measure the perpendicular height of any location in the 3D environment

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Written by Katherine Lockley
Updated over 10 months ago

What is the Height tool?

The Height tool enables you to measure the perpendicular height between two selected points in the 3D environment.

It works by drawing a right-angled triangle, the elevation and vertical angles are also measured and reported.

Height of a building being measured in Sensat

How to use the Height tool

  1. Select the Height icon in the left-hand toolbar:

    Select the line tool from the right hand navigation bar

  2. Navigate to the desired area of your project.

  3. Single-click at the base of the object that you're measuring to create your first point.

  4. Move the cursor to the final height that you're measuring and double-click (or press enter) to finalise the measurement.

  5. The perpendicular height as well as the elevation and vertical angles will be saved as a post in the Layer manager.

    View the markups height in the markup panel

  6. After you have created your markups, there are a variety of different ways you can edit them, you can:

    *these actions are only available for markups you created, learn more about permissions here.

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