Get length of rectangle required to make parallelogram

[Anonymous]

I have the following parallelogram as a component in Fusion 360. When it's in a drawing I can get the angles, the diagonal length, or the length between adjacent corners. Is there a way I can get the length between opposite corners as a measurement parallel to the long side? The idea is that I want to buy a certain length of wood and chop the ends to make a parallelogram and I need to know what length of wood to buy.

[Anonymous]

Use the measure tool which is under inspect menu. Choose the opposite corners of the body to know the distance between the corners and before that you should give the distace betweent the long lines whichare parallel to each other.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

"Named View" is your friend:

1. create a named view in design mode

2. select your "named view" in drawing environment

günther

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous  That is the diagonal length, I'm looking for the edge length of a rectangle should a triangle be inserted at the end of the parallelogram, and specifically I'm looking for that in the drawing view.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

do you look for this?

  or this    

günther

[Anonymous]

@g-andresen Aligned dimension is exactly what I was looking for! Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it works!

EDIT: Though I got a different result when measuring a projected view:

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Nevertheless you should consider the named view option, because in some situations it is the only option that allows you to dimension a true length.

günther

[Anonymous]

@g-andresen Hi, sorry I didn't really understand from your video how named views helps with getting the measurements. Would you mind clarifing it?

cheers,

Jon

[g-andresen]

Hi,

please share a sample file

günther