- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be learning
about the Measure command.
Now the Measure command is used pretty much all the time
while you're developing and designing a part,
especially if you're not sure exactly how big a feature is
and that really allows you to kind of measure
or interrogate your existing model to make sure
you're designing correctly for it.
So let me show you how to use that tool.
It is available under the Evaluate toolbar or you can also
get to it several different ways for some shortcuts,
but right now, let's just go ahead
and use the Evaluate toolbar.
Come over here to Measure.
And I'm going to pull that right over here
so I can see it a little clearer and let's go ahead
and just choose like the top surface there,
spin my model around here,
choose like the bottom surface there.
And you can see it gives me a dimension of 200 millimeters.
So that's a Measure command that's really basic to use.
You can also use things like hole-to-hole measurements.
You can define how you want to measure,
either center-to-center or a minimum distance
or maximum distance or the custom distance.
You can change units and things like that.
So you can use a lot of different functions
and modifications inside of the Measure command.
And you can do this all
while you're creating parts inside of SolidWorks.
So for instance, if you're over here and maybe you're going to
work on this feature here, maybe you start on a face,
you start a sketch, you come over here.
Maybe you start with a circle and you say, you know what,
I'm going to start and draw out a circle here,
but you don't really know how big is this boss, right?
You don't really know.
So you can jump over to Evaluate.
You can go over to Measure and you can choose,
hey, let's just choose that edge.
And it says, oh, it's 30 millimeters.
Great, so then now I can go ahead and go back
to my circle and define how big that circle is.
Or I can add a dimension back to my circle over here
under Sketch, Smart Dimension.
It was 30, let's go ahead and make it 25.
And there you go.
So you can use that command inside of other features
when you're creating a cut or a feature or a sketch,
you can measure inside of it, you can measure
from part to part, you can measure from hole to hole.
It's available pretty much all the time.
And again, it's a really great way to start on a model,
measure some things and make some modifications
or just use it to figure out what's going on in a model,
especially if you haven't started the model for yourself
or maybe you're working with a team
and you're trying to figure out what's going on.
You can use that while you're going through
and designing your parts inside of SolidWorks.