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Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:53:47 GMT

I have the following parallelogram as a component in Fusion 360. When it's in a drawing I can get the angles, the diagonal length, or the length between adjacent corners. Is there a way I can get the length between opposite corners as a measurement parallel to the long side? The idea is that I want to buy a certain length of wood and chop the ends to make a parallelogram and I need to know what length of wood to buy.

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:22:18 GMT

Use the measure tool which is under inspect menu. Choose the opposite corners of the body to know the distance between the corners and before that you should give the distace betweent the long lines whichare parallel to each other.

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

g-andresen — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:25:45 GMT

Hi,

"Named View" is your friend:

1. create a named view in design mode

2. select your "named view" in drawing environment

günther

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:09:41 GMT

@Anonymous That is the diagonal length, I'm looking for the edge length of a rectangle should a triangle be inserted at the end of the parallelogram, and specifically I'm looking for that in the drawing view.

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

g-andresen — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:52:56 GMT

Hi,

do you look for this?

or this

günther

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:34:41 GMT

@g-andresen Aligned dimension is exactly what I was looking for! Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it works!

EDIT: Though I got a different result when measuring a projected view:

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

g-andresen — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:43:51 GMT

Hi,

Nevertheless you should consider the named view option, because in some situations it is the only option that allows you to dimension a true length.

günther

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:28:20 GMT

@g-andresen Hi, sorry I didn't really understand from your video how named views helps with getting the measurements. Would you mind clarifing it?

cheers,

Jon

Re: Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

g-andresen — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:32:26 GMT

Hi,

please share a sample file

günther