Drawing a Polyline

To draw a single line made up of connected segments, follow these steps:

In the Tools pane in the tool box, click .

The icon is displayed in blue. If this icon is not visible, it may have been replaced by another measurement icon in the same icon group. Click the white arrow below the icon group button to expand it and display all the buttons in the group. See “Overview of Tools Pane Features”.

The Measurement object list appears in the Tools pane. See “Using the Object List”.

On a 2D MPR view screen in the tab, click to set the start point of the polyline.
Drag your mouse pointer and click again to set a segment end point.

The length of the segment is displayed alongside the segment end point.

Keep dragging and clicking to set additional segment end points.

The total length of the polyline increases as each new segment is added.

Double-click to set the end point of the polyline.

A calculation label containing the total length appears on the image. You can move length labels. See “Moving Measurement Labels in Images”.

A new polyline entry is added to the Measurement object list and the button is deactivated in the tool box.

To draw multiple polylines, in the Tools pane in the tool box, click .

This tool works in the same way as the single polyline tool but remains activated so that you can keep drawing polylines on an image.