what is 'loop length' ?

[Anonymous]

in Fusion 360 in "inspect => Measure => if I click on what I call a 'face' it gives me an area (that I can manually calculate and it "looks realistic" but it also offers me something called "Loop Length" - what is that?

[macmanpb · Accepted solution]

The "Loop length" is the face outer contour length.

[Anonymous]

THANK YOU (VERY MUCH) _ this 'seemed' to be the case, but manual calculations are a 'bit-off' (not surprise, it's early in the morning, here)- thank you FOR YOUR INPUT! - Bill

[TIMCOOKE6282]

so, if I understand the solution correctly, for a circle profile, the loop length for a sector of the circle would be the arc length, the outer most contour of that sector of the profile

[TrippyLighting]

Correct!

[TIMCOOKE6282]

thank you sir

[navydoc.thomas67]

Is that another way to say "circumference"?

[jhackney1972]

Probably the best term to use is "perimeter" as the shape may not be circular in shape. 

[navydoc.thomas67]

thanks

[vertunc1976]

The measure command under inspection menu lists two types of loop lenghts when I tyr to measure the distance between two construction planes. What are these loop lenghts?