- [Narrator] Now that we have a part designed,
we may want to go through and analyze the part
and make sure things check out
as far as size and relationships, of faces
and distances that type of thing.
So the easiest way to get to a measure tool
is simply out in space.
Click with the first mouse button
and you come across and you'll notice
that I have measure distance.
So I click on measure distance.
Under the measure distance menu,
there's gonna be a lot of options.
You'll notice there's distance, projected distance,
screen distance, lengths, radius, diameter,
points on curves, so on.
I'm just gonna talk about the basics behind this,
so you have a good understanding of how the tool
basically operates.
So I'm gonna leave it on distance
and you'll notice that I have start point and an end point.
And I also have a minimum distance, minimum local,
maximum that type of thing.
And I can create associative distances,
and show the information in the window.
So let's go ahead and do that.
I'm gonna go in and I wanna measure,
let's say a couple of faces.
Maybe I want to measure this face over to this face.
Instead of measuring points, I want the actual face.
You'll notice if I hover over the face,
whatever, it's going to, in this case,
give me the access center line to that hole,
cause it's a hole.
Same thing with any other hole like that cylindrical face.
But if I do want to measure the face,
the easiest thing to do, the best thing
to do really is, to tell it face.
Alright, so the points, nothing else gets selected,
you'll notice now it is face to face.
So as soon as I pick the first one,
it automatically marches on to the second end point
or second object to measure.
Now this is giving my, as you can see, shortest distance.
This is my minimum distance.
If I wanted to, I could see what my maximum distance is.
And my maximum distance is from this point on that face
all the way, let me rotate it, to that point on that face.
So you can get min distances, max distances.
It's great for checking clearances that type of thing.
Let's see.
If you wanted to change what your measuring from or to,
you just come up to the top, over here,
and specify something different.
So if I wanted to change my start measuring face,
I'd just click on the start
and pick what I want to measure too.
Now you'll notice that I'm picking points,
all this other stuff.
I wanna make sure once again this is set to face
and I pick that face.
Alright and we'll just say minimum distance,
that's my minimum distance between those two faces.
If I say show an information window,
you'll notice here, I have my 2-D distance.
I have my 3-D distances.
So this is basically a delta distance
in my X, Y, and Z directions.
So the true distance between or in this case,
the minimum distance between those points is 29.64,
but if I measure the distance along my X, Y, Z directions
those are the distances or my deltas in those directions.
You also have location of your first point,
second point and again, the deltas of those points.
And the reason why these appear currently the same,
is because my work coordinate system.
Remember I talked about that in a previous video.
That work coordinate system is currently set to absolute.
If for some reason and let's say I'm in a sketch
and the work coordinates moved or whatever that may be,
then you may end up with, not maybe,
you will end up with different results
based off of where the work coordinate system.
The minimum distance will always be the same,
but how it measures the X, how it measures the Y and Z,
will be measured against that work coordinate system
so you may end up with different distances there.
So, just go careful with that.
Let me go ahead and close this.
Now if I come down and turn on associative,
for example, just say results display.
I'm gonna turn off show information window,
cause we have already seen that.
And I can say create output geometry.
I'm gonna select ok.
What ends up happening is it puts a measurement in
the part navigator.
So I can basically save that out.
I know exactly where it's at and the other thing
that it did, is I said create geometry,
and you'll notice that there are the two points
and the line that indicate that measurement.
I'm gonna click on my first mouse button once again.
This time I'm gonna go into measure distance here.
If I wanna measure a radius or a diameter
or whatever that may be, I can specify
in this case diameter.
You'll notice that there's only one object to be selected.
And once again, I can pick that object,
whatever that object may be,
maybe it's a corner edge, face, whatever.
And it shows me once again, that's my diameter distance
or diameter size of that part.
Again, if I leave on associative,
create output geometry, it's grayed out,
I can say show dimension, select ok
and there is my arc diameter.
And another thing to note is based off of the type
of measurement that you're making,
it denotes it here in the part navigator.
So you know ones a distance, ones a diameter,
so it tells you specifically
what type of measurement it's going to be.
We'll do one more.
So I'll come in and go to measure distance.
Once again, pick on the type of measurement
you wanna create.
So let's say I wanted to do a length.
If I go into length now, in this case,
you'll notice the selection intent pops up.
Because now I'm not just simply picking a point to point.
I get a chain of curves, a chain of commands here.
So if I pick say, this edge,
this is gonna give me the length of that edge.
And I can say show dimension and again,
if I say an information window,
this gives me curve one, arc length, so and so, right.
Right now, they're currently the same.
I'm gonna hold the shift key down and deselect it.
This time I wanna pick this edge here.
And you'll notice soon as it picks all of those,
curve one is this long, curve two, curve three,
curve four, curve five.
The total arc length is this.
What it did is set up the measurements
for each one of those segments
and then again the total length.
So when I go in and take a look at that information window,
I just refresh and I'm gonna get the same thing.
You click it on and off.
You'll see each one of those segments
is measured out again and there's that total length.
So let me go ahead and close that out, select ok
and there is my, it tells you a total of five objects
and the total length of those objects.
And again, it indicates in the part navigator
that it is a length measurement.
So it's a really good tool again,
I think the hardest part for people to grasp
sometimes is you have to go back in and make sure
you have the right type of dimension
that you want to make or type of measurement,
you want to make and you again, the selection intent.
Make sure you have the selection intent set up,
so you're measuring what you truly want.