Can you screenshot the sketch you're referring to?
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Imagine a circle on a plane, then draw a diameter line on the circle, now offset the diagonal line. This offset was what I wanted to find. However you will find that if the circle is aligned to XYZ, then its a piece of cake. Otherwise if you rotate that circle and diameter it suddenly becomes a much more involved problem. Add on top of that, the circle is one part 1, the line is on part 2 in some top level assembly. There are many ways to "work around" the problem. But just like the first clutch/break/accelerator system on a car, the solution was to simplify the acceleration and deceleration of a car. The embodiment of the solution turns out to have a lot of variants... Clutch, brake, accelerator, break accelerator, single pedal, single lever, steering wheel tabs etc. We came up with a ton of different ways to command a car to move. But one thing I don't do in a decent vehicle is to spray fuel into the intake with a water bottle spray can. That's how it feels like when I use the solid works measuring tool.
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.
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.
Do you mean something like this? The two parts are offset but parallel.
Yup almost. In my case the measurements would not actually give a normal direction measurement. That's why it frustrates me so much.
You can't provide a similar but different example?
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.
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.
Check it out!
I can see how that would be useful. I think the measure tool in Blender is similar.
Thanks for the video!
Piling on...I present you all with SW's way of measuring the difference between two radii.
Sure most of the time that works OK. But I tend to find everything that doesn't work... And unfortunately I cannot share the model and also I cannot recreate it... I wouldn't wanna be caught dead with solidworks on my computer.... Ew!
