The iOS app has a neat ruler. However, it is unclear which units are used for the ruler. It doesn’t fit centimeters nor inches. So how can we measure reliably in the app? We design and produce marine canvas. We have iPads in our workshop for the convenience of our workers. They need to check measur…

hi @Igor1 The ruler is the ruler from ios, which you will find also in the notes app, this has no reference whatsoever with the iRhino (object) dimensions. It’s only there to provide you a way to draw straight lines in your annotations.

Thanks for clarifying. But does this mean that there’s no way to measure anything in the app?

If you select an object, and press the upper right (i) info button, you’ll get the bounding box size of the selected. If you need anything else then I can log it for our dev.

Hi Rhino 3d team, it would be neat to have the distance measuring tool in the rhino app. So one could take the ipad into the workshop, with all the relevant information. The distance tool should incorporate the magentic tools, to select points, curves … Best and thanks for your work Jan

Measurements in iOS app

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mkarimi (Morteza Karimi) August 15, 2025, 4:50pm 7

[iRhino3D WIP] ( iRhino3D WIP is now available via Testflight - #23 by mkarimi ) has a command line that you can run dimension commands to do this. OSnaps and grid snaps are also implemented.

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