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Inspect tool use in a section analysis

Inspect tool use in a section analysis

Greetings

 

I would like to request that you make the measurement tool more able to select and measure between surfaces that have been "cut" using a section analysis. I have many interior dimensions that I need to measure and its a pain to have to rotate the view so that I can find a way to see one of the surfaces I wish to use as a measurement tool. Twould be much easier if I could accomplish this while looking at a section.

 

That goes for push pull surface as well.

 

thanks

Hanswurst

5 Comments
NCSkalsky
Alumni
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
NCSkalsky
Alumni

Hi Hanswurst - Thank you for the suggestion! We agree this is something that would be useful. Unfortunately I don't see this as something we will be able to deliver on in the immediate future however I am logging this into our planning process for future consideration.

 

If you or others have thoughts on this (technical or to give it votes/Kudos) please keep the conversation going.

 

Thanks for taking the time to help!

 

-Nathan

(Fusion 360 Development)

Anonymous
Not applicable

This is something I would like to see.  It's been over a year since this was posted.  I was about to post this exact idea but it already exists.  Can you comment on where it stands in the development plan?  

 

The original poster indicated that his workaround is merely to spend more time rotating to select the right entities, but I see it differently.  You can't always just select two surfaces to measure a gap.  Within a section view, you should be able to select and measure distances, lengths, angles, etc between virtual vertices and edges, and measure areas of faces.  

madengineer13
Advocate

I Use this all the time in Solidworks,  the ability to measure from a point or edge on a section plane is very useful.   

 

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

Is there still no way to measure the edges of a section view?

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