How to measure radius

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hal_sk
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How to measure radius

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Hello,
I am new to FreeCAD. I was not able to find how to measure outer radius of chamfer around hole (green circle on the attached picture). So far I have only found "measure distance" but this seems to not work for circle/radius. Could you help me out? Thanks.
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Re: How to measure radius

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

You can use addon Manipulator workbench. Or better do it the other way round: construct it in a way meeting your needed specification.
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There is a Measure tool in Asembly4 workbench.
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I found myself constantly needing to measure radii and diameters a while back and found the assembly4 workbench measure tool very easy to use. Also left no "remnants" around like mesurements all over the screen that took yet more clicks to get rid of. I used it so much I ended up putting the icon for it in a custom toolbar in the global menu bar - now I can run it whatever workbench I am in without more clicks to change workbenches back and forth ;)
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Thanks. Asembly4 is good for me.
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Select the edge in the 3D view. Press Ctrl+Shift+P. In the python console (view menu -> panels -> python console) enter:

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elt.Curve.Radius
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Re: How to measure radius

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I haven't been bothered for a long time: in 3 clicks
you put a sketch on the face,> External ref of the circle, diameter of the purple circle .... that's all
and if you made the cone with Hole, it tells you by default
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Re: How to measure radius

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Hi. I am also rather new to FreeCAD and new to this forum.
Do anyone know if there is any development or plans for a "quick measurment" standard tool for distances and curves?
I have tried to search the develeopment part of the forum and the release notes for 0.20, but I could not find anything like that.

I realize that there are solutions in different workbenches and so on. I use a script for measuring radius for example. But I wolud like a more built in standard tool for it.

Maybe I should ask in the development fourm?
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I don't know of any development, but from what I see here in the forum, an improved measurement tool would be appreciated. Besides that there is nothing wrong with using addons. That's what extensible software is about.
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Re: How to measure radius

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VincentSkerved wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:08 pm ..."quick measurment" ...
in my opinion, draft line is a quick measuring tool. here's an example


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-4joRot8M


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