https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666344#M190447 <P>Hello,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm having some trouble with setting dimensions on a diagonal line...</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2013.png" style="width: 619px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/615215i857C25D157079143/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2013.png" alt="2013.png" /></span></P> <P>No matter what I do, the dimension is between the two points and is either vertically or horizontally aligned, however I need to dimension the line itself which would need the dimension to extend perpendicularly from the line (below image).</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" style="width: 619px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/615213i24BB782956E96AF9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" alt="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" /></span></P> <P>Surely this is possible to do in Inventor as this seems like a somewhat counter intuitive way to scale lines in a sketch.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is slowing me down somewhat.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thank you.</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:11:06 GMT Anonymous 2019-03-18T16:11:06Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666344#M190447 <P>Hello,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm having some trouble with setting dimensions on a diagonal line...</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2013.png" style="width: 619px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/615215i857C25D157079143/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2013.png" alt="2013.png" /></span></P> <P>No matter what I do, the dimension is between the two points and is either vertically or horizontally aligned, however I need to dimension the line itself which would need the dimension to extend perpendicularly from the line (below image).</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" style="width: 619px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/615213i24BB782956E96AF9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" alt="2019-03-18_16-01-23.png" /></span></P> <P>Surely this is possible to do in Inventor as this seems like a somewhat counter intuitive way to scale lines in a sketch.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is slowing me down somewhat.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thank you.</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:11:06 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666344#M190447 Anonymous 2019-03-18T16:11:06Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666358#M190448 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Aligned Dimension" style="width: 653px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/615220iF197AA229601D257/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Aligned Dimension.png" alt="Aligned Dimension" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">Aligned Dimension</span></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Click the line twice (not endpoints)</P> <P>or</P> <P>right click and select Aligned.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:26 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666358#M190448 JDMather 2019-03-18T16:20:26Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666360#M190449 <P>When placing the dimension, right click.</P> <P>There should be an option "Aligned".&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:15:40 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666360#M190449 brad 2019-03-18T16:15:40Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666388#M190450 <P>Solved</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:23:30 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666388#M190450 Anonymous 2019-03-18T16:23:30Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666394#M190451 <P>Thank you very much for this!</P> <P>How I overlooked this I have no idea.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:24:20 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimension-a-diagonal-line/m-p/8666394#M190451 Anonymous 2019-03-18T16:24:20Z