I see that there is a measurement tool coming out for the next update and I am glad to hear it. Will this have a feature where you can drag the meaaurment beside the object? It would be a very helpful tool for us who do sign work and vinyl graphics. Thanks

The measure tool (available in the development builds and working quite well) displays angles and lengths but only temporarily, and i don't know any way to put those displays on canvas to be edited.
But Inkscape does have a couple of extensions under visualize path - 'dimensions' and 'measure path' that you might find useful. I used them in sequence to make this example. Some adjustments needed to be made - text is not centered by default etc. but still pretty nifty, and the text is editable afterwards.

I would like to say that this is an excellent idea.
I would suggest the same thing, but as this post already exists, I would just reinforce the idea, putting a further example.