topic Re: Measure tool measuring at angle? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:49:06 GMT

Expected measurement in red:

If I was looking for the measurement given by fusion I would not have clicked on a face.

This forum still thinks public youtube videos are private so here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sDRb0wcok

Measurement done in milling workspace.

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

seth.madore — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:57:20 GMT

It's not really a MFG issue, so I'm going to move it over to the Design forum 🙂

Yep, it doesn't return the dimension alignment one would expect. If you click on the two contours you will get a good value:

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:59:57 GMT

Just FYI it looks like this is still in the MFG forum.

Is there a ticket for this?

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

seth.madore — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:27:16 GMT

oops, thanks.

Nope, ain't gotten around to it yet, been busy with other matters

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:00:18 GMT

Here's another example of this:

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

laughingcreek — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:09:51 GMT

the measurement tool in your last pick is returning the value I would expect, ie - the smallest distance in space between 2 edges. there's nothing in the selection set to indicate a direction for the measurement. To get the measurement you're looking for select the planner faces-

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

HughesTooling — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:23:44 GMT

If you select 2 concentric edges Fusion will give you the distance between centres as well as the distance between the curves. What Fusion does not do is treat a planar surface as an infinite plane so you can measure between the flat surface and another object. If you create an offset plane on the bottom surface it would work but that's not how Fusion treats a face, at times it might be useful to have the option though!

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:05:41 GMT

So I take it there no way to use the measure tool to measure what size radius the below geometry highlighted in blue is?

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

etfrench — Tue, 09 May 2023 04:05:14 GMT

It's 0.022 inches. Why are you in Direct edit mode?

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:55:44 GMT

Thanks did you use the measure tool to get that measurement?

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

g-andresen — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:13:31 GMT

Hi,

@FrodoLoggins schrieb:

Thanks did you use the measure tool to get that measurement?

YES, he did!

(view in My Videos)

ünther

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

HughesTooling — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:38:49 GMT

The method shown by @g-andresen will only work with 90° fillets, OK for this example.

You could just right click the fillet (in the browser or just on the model) and select edit feature.

If you are working with an imported part, you'd need to run Find Features first. This is what I've done here after copying the body to a new design.

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:21:18 GMT

Thanks.

Any way to find this distance?:

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

HughesTooling — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:44:17 GMT

Not with the measure tool. If it's aligned with the document axis you could select the body, right click, select properties then check the bounding box.

@Phil.E This and measuring to the bottom of a drill hole seem to be lacking when it comes to the measure tool.

This for example only gives a minimum distance. Same would apply with a spherical end to the hole.

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

Phil.E — Mon, 22 May 2023 18:49:51 GMT

Thanks @HughesTooling I logged FUS-130041 for the improvement to add conical apex and spherical apex to the measure command.

For the fillet question earlier in this thread, I'm confused why measuring doesn't work for radius. Did I read that wrong?

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

FrodoLoggins — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:19:02 GMT

Doesn't look like I get a radius value:

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

Phil.E — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:26:47 GMT

Then it's not an arc, I would guess.

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

etfrench — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:39:08 GMT

The fillet is a compound curve. Perhaps that is the reason it doesn't show the radius.

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

HughesTooling — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:58:17 GMT

@Phil.E wrote:

Thanks @HughesTooling I logged FUS-130041 for the improvement to add conical apex and spherical apex to the measure command.

For the fillet question earlier in this thread, I'm confused why measuring doesn't work for radius. Did I read that wrong?

@Phil.E Are you using the insider version? Here's a simple example I've made, you can see in the timeline the fillet feature is selected and it's definitely a fillet but all I get is an area!

Re: Measure tool measuring at angle?

Phil.E — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:15:32 GMT

Yes I'm on Insider.

Does the measure command also fail on the build you're using?