obtaining the XY distance between circles

luiyingchun
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obtaining the XY distance between circles

luiyingchun
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I am wondering how I can get the XY distance between a reference circle and a number of other circles ( in the same or different sketches ) quickly.  The most important of all, I need to be able to cut and paste the XY numbers to Excel. 

 

In  2D autocad, my practice is moving everything so that the XY of the reference circle will be at the origin.  Then I just need to click each of the other circles and copy their XY from the object property inspector window.   In fusion 360, I can use inspect -> measure tool but the numbers cannot be copied 

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The primary purpose of this operation is to copy the data to my milling machine ( manual ) where holes will be drilled at the designed XY locations.

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g-andresen
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Hi,


@luiyingchun wrote:

 

  In fusion 360, I can use inspect -> measure tool but the numbers cannot be copied 

 

 


they can!!!

 

 

However, they are inserted in Exel with units.

 

günther

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luiyingchun
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Wow ! just wondering how you knew left clicking the number will copy it to the clipboard, there is no indication at all . A big THANKS to you !

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davebYYPCU
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Ha, years ago,

 

when you hover over the value - we got prompt “click to copy to clipboard”

 

They changed it - called it progress and 
Removed the prompt but function still works.

Might help….

 

 

 

 

 

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