Hey. I just upgraded to the newest rhino, and my Linear Dimension tool is not working. Works fine for the base length and width for a box, but when I try to measure vertically it says ‘0’, as it is actually measuring the horizontal distance on my line. I’ve tried everything. Silly, I know, but it’s making me crazy. Any ideas?
Place the dimension in the right or front view, I am guessing you are trying to place it in the Perspective view. Even if project is off, it wants to measure in the Cplane of that viewport.
From the Dim command help: “Note: Dimensions always measure as though the object were projected to the current construction plane.”
As Gregb says, or additionally you can use the cplane, 3point tool for a custom construction plane aligned to the desired points for your dimension.
Thx to both of you. I did switch to front view, and it was fine…I was just sure that I used to be able to do the whole thing in perspective. Onwards…
Sue
Nope. Dimensions are always created coplanar to the viewport construction plane.
Hello everyone,
talk about lighting old fags, but hey, I’m a non-smoker, so what the hell do I know? Speaking of which: I have been running into this issue repeatedly: In any orthogonal viewport I will try to use the linear dimension tool. When so doing, the dimension measured will end up not only aligning the text to a plane orthogonal to the one I’m measuring in, but also setting the measurements in that very same axis, in other words, measuring 0mm. I was working on the assumption that my cplane was off, so I set that explicitly to the viewport, however, no dice - same issue. This is starting from a scratch file using the generic “small objects” file-template in mm. I am a fond user of the gumball, just mentioning this as a pot luck idea as to where I might be going wrong. In view of the frequency, with which I am running into this issue, I am very surpised that this hasn’t come up more often (and so saying: it’s probably me)…
Hi Bastian -
Please post a 3dm file and perhaps a few images of what you are doing.
-wim
Dear Wim,
if I try using the linear dimension tool in the top view, looking for a vertical dimension, the issue should become apparent.
Seitenmarkierungsleuchte red .3dm (309.7 KB)
