topic Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension in Inventor Forum

Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

ethan_howardMMXXV — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:57:44 GMT

Typically, a green grip (shown below) will appear when dimensioning to the midpoint of a quadrant. I am dimensioning the overall for this sub-assembly. For some reason, this particular selection does not work. Inventor wants to dimension as a diameter dimension only (shown below). Is there a way to force the selection? In AutoCAD, I could use OSnap for quadrants.

Thank you,

-Ethan

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

SBix26 — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:37:21 GMT

The green dot you show in your first image is not a quadrant snap, it is a mid-point snap. An arc has a midpoint, of course, and a circle does not have a midpoint.

Sam B

Inventor Pro 2022.2.2 | Windows 10 Home 21H2

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

ethan_howardMMXXV — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 11:41:29 GMT

@SBix26 In the second image, how do I select that circle for the overall dimension of my sub-assembly?

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

-niels- — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:24:06 GMT

Workaround:
Start a sketch on that view, project the circle and draw a tangent line from it.
Exit the sketch and dimension to that drawn line.

I don't know if it is possible to do it without the workaround...

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

ethan_howardMMXXV — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:42:23 GMT

That worked. Thank you. Can that be placed in the Inventor "enhancements" bucket? Meaning being able to dimension to any feature? Like AutoCAD, where you can use an OSnap to grab a quadrant, for example.

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

-niels- — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:26:47 GMT

@ethan_howardMMXXV wrote:
Can that be placed in the Inventor "enhancements" bucket?

You can add your own request for improvement on the "Inventor ideas" forum.

If you post a link to your idea in this topic, i'll add my vote.

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

ethan_howardMMXXV — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:47:58 GMT

Done. Thank you!

Re: Forcing a Quadrant Selection for a Dimension

-niels- — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:52:48 GMT

Added my vote.
For others that would like to do the same, the idea can be found here:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/drawing-osnap-selections-like-autocad/idi-p/10993840