-
Click Measure in the Inspect
group on the Measure
tab.
Mouse over your design to preview the faces and edges eligible for
measurement.
- Select points, curves, edges, or faces to display measurement
information.
Ctrl+ Selecting multiple objects displays measurement
between them as appropriate. The value Min. distance
between objects displays an exact measurement of the minimum
distance between the objects you selected.
Selecting multiple faces
displays their total area.
Triple-click a body to display its total
surface area. Selecting a whole body in the Measure
tool also reports the overall X, Y, and Z direction extents.
- (Optional) Hold Alt and select a reference
object.
The reference can be a point, curve, edge, face, plane, axis,
or origin.
You can measure to an axis of an origin object.
-
Hover over a measurement value to display the semi-halo.
- Click Copy to copy the measurement value to the clipboard
for pasting into Notes, etc.
- Click Create output
parameter to create an output parameter from the
measurement.
- Click Record script to record parameters as a script in the script
editor window, when scripting is enabled.
When measuring edges and curves, the Minimum and
Maximum Curvature locations are highlighted in the
geometry when you hover over the result.