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The other tool that you can utilize with Points and with Blocks is the Measure Tool. It's very similar to the Divide Tool that we used earlier, however, what you do now is you measure an exact segment length instead of dividing into equal segments. Now you can see our Shrubs here that we placed using the Divide Command. The Measure Command is in the same place, so you make sure that your Fly-out Panel here, on the Draw Panel, is pinned out, like so. You click on the down arrow here and you've got the three options: Multiple Points, Divide, and Measure. So when I click on Measure now and come into the Drawing Area it prompts me to select the object I want to measure. Now you may not be able to see this exactly but if you look closely and hover there is a Setting Out line just there, placed along the one side of the house. So what I'm going to do there is left-click and select that Setting Out line. Now, it prompts me to Specify the length of the segment, or I can either press the down arrow like we did with the Divide Command, or I can right-click on the mouse and select Block, like so. Now the name of the Block I want to insert this time is Sprinkler. Press Enter, and again you're prompted: Do you want to align the block with the object? Well, yes we do. We want the Blocks to go down that right-hand side of the house there and spray out across the grass, across the shrubs, towards the pond there. Notice as well, when I press Enter to accept the Y that we are on our Sprinklers Layer here. So the length of the segment now is going to be 1000, 1 meter, or 1000 millimeters. So, each spacing now of the sprinklers will be 1000 millimeters, or a meter. When I press Enter it places the sprinklers nice and neatly and tidily at 1000 millimeter segments along that Setting Out line. Now because I selected the top half of the line it started here at the top half of the line and placed the first sprinkler 1000 millimeters down, and then it's worked its way down that line and you'll notice there at exact segments, and also there's an exact ending there. That's because that edge of that house is in thousands of millimeters. So if I did a Measure there now, for example, and did a Distance I went from this corner here down to this corner here, like so, you'll see that there's a Distance there. Now I haven't clicked exactly there. Unfortunately I've got a Midpoint on that sprinkler, but we know if we look at that we can calculate how many 1000 millimeters there are. If you count the segments to three, four, five, six, seven Ð there are seven spacings there of 1000 millimeters. So even though I've clicked in the wrong place there with the Distance Command you know that it's 7000 millimeters long. I'm going to Exit the Distance option there now, and what I'm going to do, I'm actually going to delete that sprinkler there. I don't need it, purely because it's sitting on the corner of the house there, and then what that leaves me with is six sprinklers exactly spaced at 1000 millimeters along the right-hand side of the house. So now those sprinklers will work on that part of the garden. If I just pan across slightly here you'll see that I've already done this over here with these sprinklers here up to the hardstanding area here. So as you can see, Measure, again, is a very useful tool. It utilizes existing Blocks, it utilizes your Points, and as you can see it works perfectly when you want things placed exactly at exact distances.