Analyzing Your Design - Autodesk Infraworks and Infraworks 360 Essentials - page 253

Finder icon in the Analyze toolbar. The Range Finder appears as crosshairs and
a rectangle enclosed in a circle with four numerical values at the top, bottom,
left, and right (see Figure 7.8). As you move the Range Finder around the model,
it will report information to you about the location of any objects that it passes
over. If you click an object, it will insert an informational panel displaying that
information in the model.
fIgure 7.8 The Range Finder tool
The values shown are summarized next. The word in parentheses represents
the position on the range finder where this information appears.
Heading (top) The value at the top of the compass tells you the direction in
which you are looking expressed as an angle read clockwise from due north. For
example, if you are looking due east, the value will read 90. Due south will be
180, and due west will be 270.
Altitude (right) The value on the right of the compass tells you the distance
above the terrain surface at the location of the crosshairs on the object that the
Range Finder is pointed at.
distance (Bottom) The value on the bottom of the compass tells you the dis-
tance between your viewpoint and the object that the Range Finder is pointed at.
Inclination (Left) The value on the left measures the vertical angle of your
view direction measuring downward from horizontal. So, if you are looking
straight out (horizontal), this value will be 0. If you are looking downward on
your target, it will be a positive number, and upward will be a negative number.