topic Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:17:12 GMT

Pretty simple but it eludes my beginner's brain! I want to get the length and cut angle plus rotational relationship of the 4 joining tubes between the parallel planes. But how?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:35:23 GMT

How did you build the pipes? Can you measure the axis to Plane angle of each pipe?

Create an Axis for each a front and back pipe, the others will be the same but left / right handed.

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Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:21:09 GMT

But will that give me the cut angles? And the offset of the (rotation) angles between the 2 faces?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:35:59 GMT

Because the plates are parallel, the angles are the same at each end.

Send your file for review and demonstration.

A tube at the same angle (69 /21) each end, 90 long, will fit.

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Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:24:09 GMT

Because they are NOT perpendicular to the 2 planes but rather spread, I need the delta angle of rotation between the 2, Fusion must be able to display that?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:00:56 GMT

Yep, and my blue line is not perpendicular to the plates.

There is an angle suitable no matter the splay angle.

Both pipes are a pair, so you are only looking for the 2 individual angles.

Again, no file, no explanation of how the model was constructed.

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Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:50:09 GMT

What kind of file would be helpful, I'm a newby to this!

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:19:17 GMT

Save your file while it's open, use File > Export. Choose a location on the hard drive, and remember it.

Come back to the Forum, you will see this section on the page, click on Browse, it will allow you to find and select the exported file - or you can drag and drop it.

The file gets copied to the forum for us to review, here.

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Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:19:34 GMT

@jerry_bassler

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:28:09 GMT

Thx for being so helpful! How about this?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:31:24 GMT

Emails do not work,

you need to do this on the Forum Web Page, (new Message) for the file share option to work.

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Angle measurement to a plane

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:42:37 GMT

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:45:09 GMT

It's there, I hope, titled, "angle measurement to a plane"

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:52:59 GMT

@jerry_bassler wrote:
It's there, I hope, titled, "angle measurement to a plane"

@jerry_bassler

Can you post screen capture - because I don't see it.

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:07:46 GMT

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:11:01 GMT

So all I really need is one angle from one of the short and long tubes and their length and a matter of rotation into location? Duh!

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:37:08 GMT

Inspect > Measure. Select a face and an Axis, (dark blue) fusion will tell you the Angle and you can see which way it lines up.

Without the file we can't tell how you made the pipes, so we can't know if you have enough data for the question, or that you need to make some more visual geometry.

Gives you the inclined angle (43 deg), but you need some way to measure the Swing Angle (43.5 deg) I use sketching.

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Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:43:30 GMT

@jerry_bassler

The only thing I see is pretty pictures, no Fusion file.
Go back and reread Messages 8&9.

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Re: angle measurement between two parallel planes

jerry_bassler — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:10:09 GMT

Sorry for being dense about this...maybe?

Re: Angle measurement to a plane

davebYYPCU — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:08:05 GMT

Attach your file. What part of my other replies did not work out for you?

Duplicate posting is not recommended. New message did not mean new question thread.

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