This morning we had an interesting question concerning a result created from the measure task. In this case the user was measuring the area of building rooftops, and wanted to create a result using that area.

To measure area, just activate the measure task, choose the polygon tool, and digitize around the outline of the rooftop. The area measurements can be displayed in a variety of different units. Here we've digtized around the roof edge of a warehouse, and have come up with a figure of about 18,478 square feet.

One of the measure options allows you to create a result from the measurement (the Create Result button you see on the task). When the result was created from the area measurement above, the complaint from the user was that it "looked wonky." We agreed. The result looked something like that below:

The reason it looked "wonky" is that the default symbol uses an outlined polygon. For a measure result we can't control the symbol size of the outline (an oversight that we'll fix in the next release). But the easy workaround is to choose a non-outlined symbol by opening the result property sheet, like the one shown below: