Measure Items
You can measure various things such as the position, length,
area, or volume of an item.
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From the section of the action bar, click Measure
.
A filter bar appears.
- Optional:
To customize
your measure, choose from the options available in the
filter bar.
Filters let you filter the geometry to select. For example, if
you select the
Line/Curve filter, you can select only
lines.
Option | Description |
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Point
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Displays the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the selected point.
You can select only points (either an existing point on the model, or any point
you click on the model).
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Center/Point
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Displays the coordinates of the center point of a circle or
a sphere. You can select only center points.
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Canonic geometries |
Displays the measurements for all canonical geometries such as
point, line, circle, arc, plane, cone, cylinder, and
sphere. |
Product
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Displays the volume of the selected product or part (as if
contained in a bounding box). You can select only whole products or whole
parts. A level selector is available to select sub-parts or sub-products at a
specific level of the root product.
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Notes:
- Point and
Product are exclusive options that
cannot be combined (only cumulative options can be combined). All other options
are cumulative options that can be combined.
- The options you select are preserved for next time you
launch the
Measure command.
- When you select an exclusive option, the
previously-selected cumulative options remain highlighted but are not active.
If you then deactivate the exclusive option, the previously-selected cumulative
options are active again.
- Curves and surfaces can be selected without selecting any of the
filter options.
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Click the item you want to measure.
Click-able items are highlighted when you hover over them, based on the options selected
in the filter bar.
- Optional:
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Click
OK
to validate the measurement.
The last-created measurement remains displayed. You can drag it
to another position. You can also customize its appearance using the
context toolbar
that appears when you select the measurement.
Measure Between Items
You can measure the distance or the angle between two items, and, optionally, you can
make special measurements, such as chain, stack, angle by three points, and circle
by three points.
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From the section of the action bar, click Measure
.
- Optional:
To customize
your measure, choose from the options available in the
filter bar.
For more on these options, see
Measure Items.
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Click the first, and then the second item between which you want
to measure.
The measurement is created and additional options appear.

- Optional:
Choose from the options available (this depends on the options
you chose in the
filter bar,
and on the number and type of items you clicked in the previous step).
Option | Description |
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Chain measures
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Displays the distance between A B, then between B and C,
then between C and D, etc.
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Stack measures
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Displays the distance between A and B, and between A and C,
and between A and D, etc.
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Measure 3 Points
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Displays the value of the angle made by three selected points, or the radius/diameter of
the circle passing through the selected points. Note:
This option is available only
if three points are selected.
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- Optional:
If you have chosen any of the options in the previous step,
click the third item (C) to continue the measurement.
- Optional:
If you chose Chain measures or Stack
measures, click C, then D, then E, etc. as required.
Note:
The behavior of previously
created measures depends on the state of
Keep previous measures.
By default,
Keep previous measures is active, and previous
measures are kept when creating a new one.
To remove the previous measure (that is, the last-created one) every time
that you create a measure, switch
Keep previous measures off. Note that this only
impacts measures created after switching the option off (that is, all existing
measures are kept).
You can turn
Keep previous measures on or off when the icon
appears. Once you modify the state of
Keep previous measures, it is kept for the length of
the session.
The
Keep previous measures option must be off to measure
the angle and arc using three points selection.
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Click
OK
to validate the measurement.
The last-created measurement remains displayed. You can drag it
to another position. You can also customize its appearance using the
context toolbar
that appears when you select the measurement.
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