topic Re: "Distance" Drop-down 'Measure' & 'Re-anchor' Behavior in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

"Distance" Drop-down 'Measure' & 'Re-anchor' Behavior

Max_Marz — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:41:44 GMT

Anyone have a video or writeup on exactly how the behavior of these two commands work?

Very hard to find this specific information because the "measure/inspect" tool overshadows any relevant search results.

Re: "Distance" Drop-down 'Measure' & 'Re-anchor' Behavior

jeff_strater — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:28:40 GMT

here is a quick screencast that discusses these. Mostly, these are really useful in Direct Modeling, less so in Parametric Modeling:

Re: "Distance" Drop-down 'Measure' & 'Re-anchor' Behavior

Max_Marz — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:07:52 GMT

Ok so re-anchor is to select from where the distance value is anchored, makes sense.
For measure are only line segments of an exact length selectable or can you select the distance between two entities too?

Re: "Distance" Drop-down 'Measure' & 'Re-anchor' Behavior

jeff_strater — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:10:24 GMT

yes, you can select two entities to measure, say, for instance, two vertices or two faces, and the distance between them will be used for the value.