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MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

baliasM74U3 — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:15:12 GMT

Hi All

Can anyone suggest the best method to mesure center to center distance between members "A" and "B". A is a thick plate and B is a SHS.

Thanks

Basil

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

Xun.Zhang — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:14:32 GMT

Hello @baliasM74U3,

Create an assembly, place the part in, Measure, select the middle filter and pick those two, now you are all set.

Hope it helps!

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

Sergio.D.Suárez — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:49:30 GMT

Hi, You should clarify a little better what you are trying to measure. Remember that you are in space and point-to-point measurement can sometimes not be exactly what we are looking for. Check the model if the entities you are looking to measure are parallel or if there are angles between them. In the video I show you a simple example with the measure tool, with the "M" keyboard. There are two models in the video, one as a structural member and another modeled as normal solid. Sometimes it is necessary to take a reference face of another component and make two plant measurements with this third reference component with respect to each entity that we need. I hope you can solve your problem. regards

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

baliasM74U3 — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:12:29 GMT

Wonderfull lesson on a monday mornging.

Heaps of Thanks

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

baliasM74U3 — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:21:56 GMT

Sorry, its not working for me.

I just wanted to measure the distance from the center of the 2 RHS using some option in "MEASURE" rather than finding and measuring the distance between the center planes of each components.

Thanks Basil

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

baliasM74U3 — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:25:03 GMT

Hi Sergio D.Suárez

Let me put it like this. i want to measure the distance between the midplanes planes (parallel) of two components. How can i do that with the measure tool without selecting the midplanes of the components.?

Thanks

Basil

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

ksanger — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:16:01 GMT

Your video looks exactly like what i do. Randomly click things to try and figure out how to make a specific measurement. Not helpful at all. A voice description and slowing down your actions such that we may actually figure out what measurement you are making would be nice.

For instance. In Inventor 2022 when I select a first face it gives me the area. When I then select a second face it is giving me the length of the second part and NOT the distance between the two faces. I would swear here but that would not help.

Re: MEASUREMENT BETWEEN TWO SOLID PARTS

SBix26 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:08:19 GMT

Not the perfect solution for all situations, but in many cases measuring from a midpoint to another midpoint and using the Delta measurements gives the desired information:

Edge midpoints are available to the Measure tool without any special options (keep selection priority on the default Faces and Edges). Expanding the Delta measurements and then selecting any of the three shows all of them in the graphics area, color coded to match the coordinate system indicator. The limitation, though, is this only works for measurements that are aligned with the coordinate system.

Sam B

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