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Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Brittany — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:36:18 -0000

Thanks yall i needed help with all of this! i get confused in math and i need all the help i can get!

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Josh — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:07:21 -0000

Gale, that is an EXCELLENT example of how it doesn't work very well. I hope it is updated to use quadrant locations or take measurements from center to max. One way around this is to put sketch points into the sketches you've shown us. This is the quickest way to get some points to measure to.

These can then be dimesioned on the part or assembly and then "Marked for Drawing" so you don't have to dimension it again in a drawing.

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

gale — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:54:00 -0000

For me, the measure tool is absolutly bad dream. The simple example is on this link - http://svobodne.net/temp/two_planes_circles.jpg

There are circle on the front plane and other circle on the right plane. The areas of circles are intersect. I notify that centers of circles arn´t on verticaly line.
If you take min to min or max to max it has same effect. And what is very wrong, that the measure tool is not able to measure their points of quadrant...

I attach sldprt file - http://svobodne.net/temp/two_planes_circles.SLDPRT

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Steve — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:00:13 -0000

I fart in your general di-rection... But seriously, measure is one of my favorite commands. Especially when one of the engineers or the machine shop needs a specific dimension that isn't called out on the drawing. It's also a great command to make sure a fillet won't tear out when they go to mill it or throw it on the lathe to shave a couple thousandths off. Yeah it took me almost a year to realize that was there. Good post Josh!

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Rod Uding — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:15:22 -0000

The Black Knight would know the answer!

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Josh — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:00:57 -0000

hahaha.. huh..uh...i don't know that...ahhhhhgggg!!! :)

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

matt — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:37:45 -0000

Is that an African or a European swallow?

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Josh — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:38:59 -0000

Hey, no problem. I didn't know about this for who knows how long and then I actually looked at those buttons one day and was like, hmm, a pulldown, looky there!

Re: Triple-play Tip for Measuring Circles and Arcs in SolidWorks

Rod Uding — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:40:56 -0000

I have used this option in the measure tool a lot! It is very handy by keeping me from using my calculator to find the distance since I would probably fat finger a number and mess up the calculation.

It is always a good thing to review the tools we use the most and be reminded of the options available for us to use to make our job simpler and easier.

Thanks for the review of the measure tool Josh!