I just stumped upon this really basic task of annotation the length of edges in a geometry. And as I read through all the past posts I noticed this issue has been brought up many times spanning 8 years. [image] How to Measure Dimension for this object Rhino How to Measure …

[image] Lmnoc1: sometimes designer need to mark the lengths of those lines spanning the 3D space. DimCurveLength should help in at least some cases. -Pascal

Hi - [image] Lmnoc1: Hopefully this is possible in the next update. My client want to see the length of every edge in a 3D print model and I tried everything but still struggling with this task that seems so simple. In Rhino 8, you could use the AutoCPlane feature. Simply sub-object select a…

Thanks for the reply. I understand everyone is trying to provide alterantive work arounds, which I have all tried and discussed in the original post. I still hope similar feature would be added in the future. AutoCPlane is quite laggy and my original hope is to not change the view which in this case…

And to the reply in the other old post (quoted above) saying that this is just how annotation works, its supposed to be only in 2D. I feel many users on the same boat are not asking to change anything thats already there, but merely adding an extra icon in the tray that dimensions a vertial line or …

[Wish] Smarter Dimension Annotation (for non XYplane lines)

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Gijs (Gijs de Zwart) December 29, 2022, 4:29pm 2

something like the script in this thread?

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[Wish] Smarter Dimension Annotation (for non XYplane lines)

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