PDMS DRAFT: how to measure on draft?

Hi Guru,
Good day.How to measure distance in pdms draft? sometimes I need to know the distance in 2d draft. what i used is measure on design and then divide the value on the scale I used in draft to get the distance unit.. any easier method to do this? thanks in advance..

From the main Draft Menu:
Query-->2D...-->Distance

prompt off
 prompt load escape |Identify 1st pt|
 var !pt1 SHPOS @
$P $!pt1
 prompt off
 prompt load escape |Identify 2st pt|
 var !pt2 SHPOS @
$P $!pt2


i think this will help u

thanks keyan, but it gives the position of the two points i pick on draft. to get the distance i need to subtract the value to get the x and y distance..dont know how to edit this form..thanks in advnce

thanks sir corrado, it helps a lot but it give the hypotenuse distance, need to compute the x and y ortho distance..i need x and y distance, it helps but i need to subtract the value of x and y..

prompt off
prompt load escape |Identify 1st pt|
var !pt1 SHPOS @
$P $!pt1
prompt off
prompt load escape |Identify 2st pt|
var !pt2 SHPOS @
$P $!pt2
 !pt1X = REAL()
 !pt1Y = REAL()
 !pt2X = REAL()
 !pt2Y = REAL()
   !T = (!pt1.before('Y'))
   !pt1X.real(!T.after('X'))
   !pt1Y.real(!pt1.after('Y'))
   !T = (!pt2.before('Y'))
   !pt2X.real(!T.after('X'))
   !pt2Y.real(!pt2.after('Y'))
   !xdist = !pt2X - !pt1X
   !ydist = !pt2Y - !pt1Y
$P X = $!xdist Y = $!ydist

thanks a lot sir keyanmech88, thats the exact what I need.. thanks for your help..