Aligned dimension doesn't work right

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Aligned dimension needs to be able to align to a point and a line and or two lines.
As you can see in the attached PDF I cannot properly dimension the distance between the two lines because I can only select points. The closest I can get on this drawing is by selecting the two centerpoints but this dimension is not alinged to the lines I am trying to dimension.

[scott.price]

Thanks for the attachment - 

Was the dimension on the drawing placed with the Linear Dimension tool? Because the Aligned Dimension shouldn't be creating dimensions like that - and if it is we'd love to take a look at you drawing and dig into what's happening.

I believe the Aligned Dim should be able to get you what your looking for if you snap to the two end points by the bend at the bottom.

As far as an Aligned Dimension between two lines, what kinds of shapes (assuming we can figure out what's going on with the one you've attached) are you unable to appropriately dim? Do you have any other examples of where the command might be falling short? 

Thanks a ton for your time, and if you don't mind sending along the Fusion model in question, It'd be great to take a closer look.

Best,

Scott

[yoshimitsuspeed]

It was placed with the aligned dimension tool. I can only get the aligned dim tool to measure the shortest distance between two points. In this case it was the shortest distance between the centerpoint of each line. Their position just makes it look like a linear dimension.

Here is another example.
If you can show me how to get the distance between the two diagonal lines it would be most appreciated.

Side notes
1. There should be a way to capture or export an image of drawings.

2. the capture image in modeling sucks with sketches.
The sketch dimension in the image says 14mm.

[yoshimitsuspeed]

 Can you only post an attachment in the first post? Or have I just completely forgotten how to do it?

I guess I'm off to convert my drawing PDF to an image so I can upload it.

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Here you can see all the aligned dimensions I can get. The ones at the ends and the ones between the centerpoints.
They measure the shortest distance between the points, not the shortest distance between the lines.

[scott.price]

That's a really good point, thanks for bringing this up - the images are super helpful. I'll look into what we need to do to address it.

Best,

Scott

[promm]

Thank you for idea - this is getting archived due to lack of votes. 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Not enough votes? This is a frikken bug or at least lack of vital capability. This isn't a question of whether enough people believe it's important to them. It's that F360 is incapable of doing basic functionality that any and every CAD program should have.
Jesus you guys are doing a great job of showing complete incompetance and pissing me off today.

[Oceanconcepts]

Well, the lack of votes probably says more about the overwhelming nature of the idea station and how easily things get lost than anything about this idea, which does seem to be a basic dimensioning function that is apparently missing. Is this something that is maybe being addressed?  Or is there another path to get the result the OP was looking for? 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

There should be a way to select the lines as opposed to just points. This would give you the dimension between the two lines as opposed to the dimension between the two points as long as the lines are parallel.

[Maowen_Zhang]

Thanks for keeping great attention on drawing features, you're our great motivation to continue big effort on drawings!

The status "archived / lack of votes" doesn't mean we don't handle them. For this issue which is very good point and very valuable feature, it's already in our backlog and tegether with some other a lot features, please stay tune, will try to update with you when it's ready. Thanks a lot!   

[yoshimitsuspeed]

This still hasn't been fixed. This isn't a feature that would be nice to have some day. This is a bug that still doesn't work. 

[promm]

Scott,

As Maowen Zhang and Scott Price had mentioned this has been logged as a bug in our backlog and that is why it was changed to archived.  I should have provided more detail in my notes when making the change.

Thank you for following up,

Mike Prom

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Is there any possibility of getting this idea revived.

I think it would be a very useful dimension option to be able to select a point and then a line that the dimension should be perpendicular to. I.e. one leg of the dimension should extend the line selected.

Regards,

Brett

[yoshimitsuspeed]

@Anonymous 
2 years later and this has sort of partially been fixed. You can use the auto dimension option to select two lines which will properly dimension the drawing I posted up at the top. I have not run into any situation where I could't get a proper dimension using this method. It is pretty messed up though that the aligned dimension option will not do this and still only selects points. Of course you should be able to dimension using any combination of lines and points and should have been able to from the time this was released as production ready software. Because sketches work just like this and have always been able to do this it seems ridiculous they couldn't figure out how to just carry it over to the drawing page but I am not a software designer so there must be some logical reasons why this has taken so long. Like aliens from the future came down and said they would destroy the world if Autodesk produced an actual production ready version of F360 before 2030. 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

The really frustrating part is when you are using auto dimension and snap a line and then snap a point hoping to dimension to it and instead it dimensions the line snapping the dimension to the point. Whoever's great idea that was should definitely be shot in the foot. 

[natecMBHZF]

I agree.  It is completely asinine that this has not been fixed.  Google Sketch up has better dimensioning abilities.