topic Inventor - revolve tool problem - edges shown up in Inventor Forum

Inventor - revolve tool problem - edges shown up

Anonymous — Wed, 22 May 2019 13:26:00 GMT

How do I make edge dimension shown in Inventor at right bottom corner?

I feel like there should be a way without using "measure" every time.

Bottom picture is example from Fusion 360.

Thank you

Re: Inventor - revolve tool problem - edges shown up

johnsonshiue — Wed, 22 May 2019 20:44:21 GMT

Hi! I am sorry I am bit confused. The title of the thread does not seem to be related to your question. I guess you are looking for a way to show measurement in the lower right status bar, right. I don't think Inventor display the measurement like your screenshot. You do need Measure command to perform measurement. Capturing it on status bar is a very interesting idea. But I guess it would limit the data displaying there.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor - revolve tool problem - edges shown up

Anonymous — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:14:40 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for the reply.

Photo was an example.

So, what I want is that Inventor displays the edge dimension when I click it without using measure command.

I am looking for option or setting for this.

Thanks

Re: Inventor - revolve tool problem - edges shown up

SBix26 — Tue, 28 May 2019 18:10:44 GMT

The answer is: you can't do this in Inventor. There is no option or setting for this, because this functionality is not in the program. It should be possible to write an add-in to do this, but I think it's much easier to use the Measure tool.

To explore the programming needed for an add-in, try the Inventor Customization Forum. To propose a change to Inventor that would provide this, post an idea in the Inventor Ideas forum.

Sam B
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