Slot dimensioning

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm trying to put dimensions on a slot in a sketch, but I'm not able to pick the external point on diameter to dimension the maximum length... Am I doing anything wrong?

The only way I found was to put a point manually on the half-circumference at left and right and then using those for attach the dimension lines.

Thank you

Marco

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

It looks like you used a centre to centre slot, try a Overall slot. See second example in this screencast.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

One more bit of info, you can select midpoints for dimensions directly if you hold the Ctrl key down while the mouse pointer is near the midpoint of a curve.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Hi Mark,

thanks for your kind reply, but it does not work for me. Holding down the ctrl button does not sort any result in selecting the mid point. For a line it selects the line and for a circle, it select nothing. To select the center point of a circle, I've to pick its center point precisely or a point on the circumference, but Fusion 360 does not indicate to me any midpoint.

Thank you

Regards

[HughesTooling]

Sorry gave you the wrong information, you need to hold the Shift key down to pick midpoints. With circles there is no quad snap so you'll need to draw a point on the circumference then add a Horizontal\Vertical constraint between the point and circle centre or draw construction lines.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Ok Mark.

Shift does the trick.

Thank you

Marco