topic Re: Drawing Dimension in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Drawing Dimension

hato54 — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:36:28 GMT

I can't find out how to draw the dimension from center to the outer tap.

Is it possible?

/Håkan

Re: Drawing Dimension

HughesTooling — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:26:29 GMT

Doesn't seem like you can, the dimension tools don't recognize midpoints or perpendicular, same situation in this example. no way to dimension from centre to angled line.

In your drawing you should be able to add a linear dimension from the centre to the end point of the top lug.

Mark.

Re: Drawing Dimension

burnandreturn — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:43:17 GMT

I didn't try it but could you add a point to the line using a perpendicular reference line to locate where to put the point and then dimension between the circle center and the new point?

Re: Drawing Dimension

burnandreturn — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:52:40 GMT

Forget what I wrote. I fogot you can't actually draw in the drawing module. What a joke of a module is the drawing module.

Re: Drawing Dimension

Jon.Dean — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:01:46 GMT

Hi Hakan,

This is one method, check out my screen-cast.

Jon.

Re: Drawing Dimension

HughesTooling — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:13:17 GMT

Hi Jon

Try rotating the model 45°, then there's no way to dimension because the dimension is not linear with the tab at 45°. An aligned dimension is not correct because it needs to be from the midpoint not an end.

Mark

Re: Drawing Dimension

hato54 — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:28:38 GMT

Thanks, I tried to choose the "top tab" then it works.
I think the Fusion team had some work to do regarding the drawing features.

/Håkan

Re: Drawing Dimension

HughesTooling — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:38:27 GMT

This sort of problem has been brought up before a few times. Here's another one that does't work, there's no way to dimension between the 2 parallel lines.

Re: Drawing Dimension

cmiller66 — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:39:51 GMT

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Håkan,

Your dimension ot the top tab worked because it's creating a vertical line, as you've discovered we do not (yet) support perpendicular snaps (or associative sketch geometry) to create your original dimension. You're also correct that we're not done with drawings and still have work to do. These items are on our roadmap but I will forward this thread to the team as a reminder.

Mark,

For that parallel dimension, the single dimension tool should already work for that case if you select the first line (not end points) then select the other line. We have an item in the backlog to apply the correct dimension extension line offset when a dimension is placed like this, currently the origin points will be the points on the line where you selected.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Drawing Dimension

HughesTooling — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:25:29 GMT

@cmiller66 wrote:

Mark,

For that parallel dimension, the single dimension tool should already work for that case if you select the first line (not end points) then select the other line. We have an item in the backlog to apply the correct dimension extension line offset when a dimension is placed like this, currently the origin points will be the points on the line where you selected.

Thanks,

Chris

Thanks Chris I missed that. I tried it between a line and circle but that didn't work, didn't think to try between those 2 lines.

Mark