topic Re: Slot dimensioning in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Slot dimensioning

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:13:14 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to put dimensions on a slot in a sketch, but I'm not able to pick the external point on diameter to dimension the maximum length... Am I doing anything wrong?

The only way I found was to put a point manually on the half-circumference at left and right and then using those for attach the dimension lines.

Thank you

Marco

Re: Slot dimensioning

HughesTooling — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:24:44 GMT

It looks like you used a centre to centre slot, try a Overall slot. See second example in this screencast.

Mark

Re: Slot dimensioning

HughesTooling — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:28:37 GMT

One more bit of info, you can select midpoints for dimensions directly if you hold the Ctrl key down while the mouse pointer is near the midpoint of a curve.

Mark

Re: Slot dimensioning

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:56:58 GMT

Hi Mark,

thanks for your kind reply, but it does not work for me. Holding down the ctrl button does not sort any result in selecting the mid point. For a line it selects the line and for a circle, it select nothing. To select the center point of a circle, I've to pick its center point precisely or a point on the circumference, but Fusion 360 does not indicate to me any midpoint.

Thank you

Regards

Re: Slot dimensioning

HughesTooling — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:23:03 GMT

Sorry gave you the wrong information, you need to hold the Shift key down to pick midpoints. With circles there is no quad snap so you'll need to draw a point on the circumference then add a Horizontal\Vertical constraint between the point and circle centre or draw construction lines.

Mark

Re: Slot dimensioning

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:54:45 GMT

Ok Mark.

Shift does the trick.

Thank you

Marco