Dimensions Through Space

Rhino
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I typically use the ‘Distance’ command to get distances on the fly when modeling but I’d like to create an actual dimension object similar to the output of ‘_Dim’ but across whatever points I am dimensioning, regardless of active cplane. Is there a command that I’m unaware of that can do this? I’ve attached a screen shot from Inventor that demonstrates what I’m aiming for. Thanks in advance for any help!

I’m using Rhino6 on Windows.

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maybe this helps:

def markLength():
    
    import Rhino
    import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
    import scriptcontext as sc
    
    
    result = rs.GetLine(0,message1 = "pick two points")
    if not result:
        return
    else:
        pt1, pt2 = result
    if not pt1 or not pt2:
        return
        
    
    line  = Rhino.Geometry.Line(pt1, pt2)
    length = round(line.Length,3)
    
    mid = (pt1+pt2)/2
    
    
    rs.EnableRedraw(False)
    newline = sc.doc.Objects.AddLine(line)
    rs.CurveArrows(newline,3)
    dot = rs.AddTextDot(str(length),mid)
    groupname = rs.AddGroup("dim-3d : "+str(length))
    rs.AddObjectsToGroup([newline, dot],groupname)
    rs.EnableRedraw(True)
    sc.doc.Views.Redraw()
markLength()
3

It works beautifully, thank you!

4

good to hear :slight_smile:

btw: I added each item to a group, which you might not want. You can also choose to add everything to the same group, this way you can delete all of them at once when needed.

5

Grouping the result is perfect. I’m pretty unfamiliar with scripting so this is a good introduction that I can play around with. Appreciate your help with this.