- [Instructor] While I'm sure everyone uses
the measure tool in Solidworks all the time
to verify different measurements and distances
in Solidworks features, one thing that's really cool
about the measure tool is it's ability
to give you things like path lengths and cord lengths
inside of sketches.
So I'm just going to click on the measure tool real quick
and go over to this path that I made.
You can see if I click on the first entity,
because it's an arc it gives me the radius,
the dimension of its center point, but it also
gives me its cord and arc length which can
be really useful depending on what you're doing.
And as I click around and select various other entities,
it builds up what that total length of my path is.
So if I didn't have this path length dimension,
or I didn't have it made as a path
and I just wanted to check what this stack-up is
with this total length,
you can go around and select all these entities
and it'll give it to you.
So especially when you're working with chains,
drives, belts, various other things that
have to have accurate measurements
but aren't necessarily orthogonal, straight-line,
90-degree, perpendicular, parallel dimensions like that.
When you have something more free-form
like this shape on the right,
using the measure tool can be really helpful.
And don't forget you can always do things like
use point-to-point and the various other adjustments
that come with it inside of the measure tool.