Determining 3D curve length

[John Picinich]

Wronsky,

You can calculate the length of a 3d sketchline, you just need to be careful
to only select the line and arc segments that make up the sketch. If you
include vertex points in your selection it will tell you that your have an
"invalid combination of selected entities".

Regarding the fillet radius display, I also wish it would show.

Regards,

John P.
www.cadimensions.com

wro...@my-deja.com wrote in message <82kfve$a2k$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I finally had a reason to excercise the 3D sketcher today to create
>sweep paths. Quite a powerful tool it is and pretty intuitive.
>
>However, I was rather surprised that Tools/Measure did not return the
>length of a 3D sketch. I had gotten rather used to being able to measure
>the length of projected curves with a single selection. Does anybody
>else think that this would be a good enhancement? Since 3D curves are
>the basis for the piping module, wouldn't it be a handy tool to have
>when estimating the length of pipe needed?
>
>While I am at it is anybody irked by the fact that linear dimensions
>show up in 3D sketches but not radius dimensions?
>
>Here is what my enhancement request would look like:
>
>Enhance the Tools/Measure menu pick so that when a 2D/3D sketch is
>selected and it has a contiguous open curve the total length of all
>non-construction elements of the sketch are returned.
>
>Enhance the 3D sketcher to show radial dimenisions.
>
>
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[wro...@my-deja.com]

[per_o_hoel]

Wronsky,

You'll find that if you have the 3D sketch OPEN for editing, select one
or more of the entities (lines or fillet arcs) and then open the
Tools /Measure dialog box, the total length will be calculated.

Please note that, if you want to select all of the entitites in the
OPEN 3D sketch by dragging a window around them, it is necessary
to "filter" on "sketch segments" - otherwise the measure dialog box
will report an invalid combination of selected entities. I think this
happens because the origin may get selected if the filter isn't on.

It would be handy if it would work even with the sketch closed, but it
doesn't.

I don't know why the radial value of 3D sketch fillets can't be
dimensioned, but agree that it should be possible.

Per O. Hoel
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In article <82kfve$a2k$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

[David Murray]

wro...@my-deja.com wrote:

> I finally had a reason to excercise the 3D sketcher today to create
> sweep paths. Quite a powerful tool it is and pretty intuitive.
>
> However, I was rather surprised that Tools/Measure did not return the
> length of a 3D sketch. I had gotten rather used to being able to measure
> the length of projected curves with a single selection. Does anybody
> else think that this would be a good enhancement? Since 3D curves are
> the basis for the piping module, wouldn't it be a handy tool to have
> when estimating the length of pipe needed?
>

Wrongsky,
You could turn the 3D sketch into a composite curve with only a few picks.
This saves time 'cause you don't have to pick every last item in the sketch,
just select the sketch from the FeatureManager when creating the composite
curve. Then you can measure the composite curve.

>
> While I am at it is anybody irked by the fact that linear dimensions
> show up in 3D sketches but not radius dimensions?
>

YES!

Regards,
Dave Murray
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