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I only write grievances because I know nothing will change.

Suppose you got two locations one is anywhere around a circle. The circle is at 45 degrees from at least one nominal plane. The other point is on a line located also at some off angle. You want the straight distance.

In NX this is simple... Point to point minimum for example would get that dimension. Otherwise you can use the circle as the plane of orientation and measure up towards the line. Anyone who has ever done this by hand and has some background in calculus could figure out a way. But not solid works. No sirybob! That's a $10k feature a year if you need it!

How about a green hue theme for the entire app? No problem! That's the next upgrade! And screw you if you don't upgrade because anything someone opens with the new version is magically not backwards compatible! Fuck solid works! Stop using this stupid software.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh? Maybe I'm visualizing this wrong.

I've never had a problem making FreeCAD measure anywhere to anywhere, no matter what it was or in what orientation.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You almost got it. Make the line a diameter, then move the diameter offset from the plane formed by the circle. And it's good that the circle is at some random angle to the xy plane. Yeah solidworks sucks at it. I would show the example but its a work project. Can't show those.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you mean something like this? The two parts are offset but parallel.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup almost. In my case the measurements would not actually give a normal direction measurement. That's why it frustrates me so much.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't provide a similar but different example?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've moved on with my life lol. I should do a video demo of how its done on NX. Its so incredibility intuitive. I haven't touched NX in the good part of a year. Maybe 6 months. Unlike in klunker solidworks, NX will always give you the answers you are looking for.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never had the opportunity to work with NX. I love SW, but it is very quirky and finding solutions to problems is not easy. You shouldn't need to log into a forum to read the responses of commonly asked questions.

Would love to see a video of NX. You should share that.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I can see how that would be useful. I think the measure tool in Blender is similar.

Thanks for the video!