Measure

The measure group allows you to create dimensions, references, geometric tolerances one the primitives and easily create custom measurements in crosshair mode. Once you created all the primitives you are interested in, you can start add measurements.

Dimension: on the right hand of the screen appears a guide of the possible combinations for the measurements, as shown in the following picture:

Every case is shown in the following pictures.

1)

set one point	confirm to obtain the point coordinate
2)

select a circle	confirm to obtain the circle diameter
3)

select a circle	select a second circle	confirm to obtain the distance between them
4)

select an arc	confirm to obtain the arc diameter
5)

select a line	select a point	confirm to obtain the distance between them
6)

select a line	select a circle	confirm to obtain the distance between them
7)

select one line	select another line (not parallel)	confirm to obtain the angle between them
8)

select one line	select the other line	confirm to obtain the distance between them
9)

select one point	select another point	confirm to obtain the distance between them
10)

select one point	select the second point	select the a line	confirm to obtain the distance between the point in the direction of the perpendicular of the line

Now, it is necessary to select which kind of measure has to be performed by selecting directly a primitive on the 2DVisualizer or through the Object Tree.

Once, select one primitive on the bottom of the screen appears which action is possible to perform according to the selected elements.

The labels can be moved by clicking on it, outside the measurement editor, and drag it.

References: help the setting of the tolerances by giving a label to the designed primitive.

Every case is shown in the following pictures.

Select a Line

Symbol Reference (to a Line)

Select a Circle

Symbol Reference (to a Circle)

Select a primitive to attach a label with a letter.

Tolerances: aided by the right-hand guide, after setting the reference, select the object on which to perform tolerance checks of circularity, parallelism and orthogonality.

As for the dimension, in order to show a tolerance it is necessary to select the right combination of primitive as shown in the following figures.

1)

select a line	confirm to obtain the tolerance of the line
2)

select a circle	confirm to obtain the tolerance of the circle
3)

select one line	select a reference of another line	confirm to obtain the tolerance of the parallelism
4)

select one line	select a reference of another line	confirm to obtain the tolerance of the orthogonality
5)

select one circle	select another circle	confirm to obtain the tolerance of concentricity

Furthermore, every dimension and tolerance can be edited in the right bar choosing the nominal value and the upper and lower tolerance.

Crosshair: allows to obtain measurements without the support of the primitive. In order to do that read the following steps:

Select the type of measurement (distance, diameter, angle),

drag (by placing the mouse inside its centre square) the crosshair above the point where to start the measurement.

It is also possible to rotate the crosshair by positioning the mouse above purple outer rectangles and dragging it. Reset the counter,

and move the crosshair over the end point to be measured.

Distance crosshair

drag the pointer to the zero point	press "Set zero" set the measure point	move the pointer to have the measurement of the distance shown in the menu
Diameter crosshair

drag the pointer to the zero point	move the pointer to have the measurement of the diameter shown in the menu
Angle crosshair

drag the pointer to the zero point	press "Set zero" set the measure point	move and rotate the pointer to have the measurement of the angle shown in the menu

On the command bar you can read the measures you are looking for.