https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/dimensioning-sketch-geometry/m-p/5689636#M371021 <P>Are you talking about in a drawing? or part?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm not understanding your question exactly..&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>But here is what I do for indicating paint masking areas on sheet metal parts.</P> <P>I simply sketch the shape in the ipt file of what will be masked then use "split" tool.</P> <P>Then in the drawing I show that sketch in the view (get model sketches) and then simply dimension to it.&nbsp;</P> <P><IMG src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/174950iE9012911CC59A295/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1" border="0" alt="paintmask.PNG" title="paintmask.PNG" /></P> Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:26:05 GMT mcgyvr 2015-06-23T16:26:05Z