no diameter/radius measurement?

[jdomechanical]

am I crazy, there is no diameter/radius measurement tool?? I see there is a macro - but I don't want a line left over, i want to measure 50 holes in 5 minutes...

I am a professional CAD designer, I use fairly high end CAD at work - Freecad for home use - and I can't really imagine doing much of anything without a simple tool like this?! is there a reason it doesn't exist??!!

[Grub]

Try "Measure" tool in "Assembly4" Work Bench :

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You can customize a toolbar to access it from any workbench.

[jdomechanical]

forgive me, that's within Freecad? I don't see an "assembly 4" workbench...

[Haavard]

You will find assembly4 in Tools -> Addon Manager.

[drmacro]

And Manipulator workbench Caliper tool.

And TechDraw workbench.

[jdomechanical]

I open these tools, and they won't let me select any edges... this is very frustrating... measuring a hole should take 2 seconds...

edit, i got it to select an edge, but won't display the dimension - using manipulator...

edit 2: i didn't realize i had to make the model 'selectable' sorry!!

[drmacro]

I open these tools, and they won't let me select any edges... this is very frustrating... measuring a hole should take 2 seconds...

edit, i got it to select an edge, but won't display the dimension - using manipulator...

edit 2: i didn't realize i had to make the model 'selectable' sorry!!

In many cases, when selecting occluded edges, it is just easier to select Draw style wireframe. Select as needed and change back to "as is" when done.

You can also check Preferences for edge width and vertex size.

You can also check the Properties View tab to set Point size and Line width per object.

[jdomechanical]

yeah, I had to select my model, which was .stp I imported from a design I made in NX, and switch selectable from 'false' to 'true'

there are a lot of fiddly little in between steps I am not used to here... maybe because of my industry, but I find it a lot more useful to measure a diameter instead of a radius, I like to run analysis tools to check radii when I can - this method is specific to Cimatron, which I use daily...

[TheMarkster]

With FreeCAD's python scripting support you can create custom tools for yourself without too much difficulty. To find the diameter of a selected edge, select the edge, press Ctrl+Shift+P. In the python console enter:

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elt.Curve.Radius*2

Note: elt (for element) might get renamed to sub (for subobject) soon in 0.20 development cycle. There is a PR pending to do this.

Look also at a macro called SimpleProperties in the addon manager, macros section.

[mario52]

Hi

tray Macro_FCInfo

replace the lines for display radius and diameter (respect the indentation)

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by

self.lineEdit_5b.setText(str(Around(rayonObjet * float(uniteM))) + " " + uniteMs + (" (dia. " + str(Around(rayonObjet * float(uniteM) * 2.0)) + " " + uniteMs + ")"))



EDIT 14/02/2022:11h00 Paris , macro upgraded actual version: 1.26 Last modified: 2022/02/06

mario