Selecting a vertex at the bottom of a drilled hole

[aleksei_ovsienko]

I don't know why but the vertex at the very bottom of a drilled hole can not be selected with Measure feature. You can select any other vertex -

but never the point and the very bottom as if it doesn't exist- 

This is frustrating because obviously whenever I drill such a hole in my design my top consideration is to check how much material thickness I got left before the tip of the hole punches through. I want to measure from that tip to the closest surface on the other side. And I can't select it.

I can however select it with a Point At Vertex command and then measure from point. But that's an unnecessary step. Why not just make it possible to measure from that vertex directly? Drives me nuts to be honest.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

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@aleksei_ovsienko wrote:

This is frustrating because obviously whenever I drill such a hole in my design my top consideration is to check how much material thickness I got left before the tip of the hole punches through. I want to measure from that tip to the closest surface on the other side. And I can't select it.

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You can select the cone and the back face to get the minimum distance. Still would be helpful at time if you could select the vertex though.

[aleksei_ovsienko]

Another annoying thing is that it's not possible to measure from the fastened surface to the end of the thread in a tapped hole. Creo did put a surface in place of thread and you could measure to the end of it. Fusion just slaps on a texture that provides no measurable reference.

[bhavani_sankuratri]

Hi @aleksei_ovsienko 

I wanted to check in and see if you still needed assistance, or if you found a solution to your question already? Let us know if you need further assistance by providing an update or if you have found a solution, please share it with the community so other members who may have the same question could learn from your experience.