Dimension a Diagonal Line

Dimension a Diagonal Line

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Dimension a Diagonal Line

Anonymous
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Hello,

 

I'm having some trouble with setting dimensions on a diagonal line...

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No matter what I do, the dimension is between the two points and is either vertically or horizontally aligned, however I need to dimension the line itself which would need the dimension to extend perpendicularly from the line (below image).

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Surely this is possible to do in Inventor as this seems like a somewhat counter intuitive way to scale lines in a sketch.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is slowing me down somewhat.

 

Thank you.

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JDMather
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Aligned DimensionAligned Dimension

 

Click the line twice (not endpoints)

or

right click and select Aligned.

 

 


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brad
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When placing the dimension, right click.

There should be an option "Aligned".  

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Anonymous
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Solved

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Anonymous
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Thank you very much for this!

How I overlooked this I have no idea.

 

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