Measure/Inspect Improvement: Parallel Faces

[patmat2350]

Along with the multiple requests I've seen here for a thickness measurement, I'd specifically like to see "distance between two parallel faces". And not merely the ABS distance between face centroids, please... if I select two faces, and you detect that they are parallel, just give me the shortest distance between them. 

Moving to F360 from CATIA, I really miss features like this... and they aren't that hard!

[Anonymous]

Measuring from the edges is just as easy don't you agree?

[patmat2350]

Ah, no.

The two faces need not be congruent, so any selected edges (even if parallel to each other) will not give the distance between the planes of the two faces.

Now, I can construct a plane at each face, and measure the distance between those,  which is just ridiculous.

I can pick two vertices on each face and get the XYZ deltas... but that's only of direct use if the faces are aligned with the axes.

[HughesTooling]

Not sure I understand.

If I select 2 parallel faces I get the distance between their planes or are you after the diagonal closest distance.

Mark

[patmat2350]

Putting on my best Roseanne Roseannadanna voice: Nevermind...

I was convinced this wasn't working... today, the results are marvelous. Must have been fast work by the Fusion 360 team!   

[HughesTooling]

Sometimes this doesn't seem to work but it's because the faces are slightly out of parallel but the angle shows 0.000°. The precision option for number of decimals doesn't work for angles ( a long time bug), because of this you need to go into your preferences and set the angular precision to 9 then you'll find there's a very small angle between the faces.

Mark