Measure tool gives Wrong Answer???
Measure tool gives Wrong Answer???
(OP)
I have a cylinder with two side ports which are 96° apart.
The ports were made from separate planes built "on surface" of the cylinder and driven to their respective angles by one sketch (Which is in turn Design Table configured). When I use the measure tool on the axis of the ports it says the angle is 84°. I get the same 84° if I measure the flats I made at each port location.
If you ask for a "normal to" on the flats one turns the part horizontal and the other vertical.
My colleague says I am getting an odd answer from the measure tool because it is reading the "normal to" in the opposite directions. If this is true then an option arrow should be added to the measure tool to ensure the desired response when measuring angles.
Does his explanation of the results from the measure tool make sense?
Or better yet, does my explanation of the problem even make sense?
Do we need an enhancement request or did I just do something wrong when I built the part. (I built it as a SW newbie a few years back).
The ports were made from separate planes built "on surface" of the cylinder and driven to their respective angles by one sketch (Which is in turn Design Table configured). When I use the measure tool on the axis of the ports it says the angle is 84°. I get the same 84° if I measure the flats I made at each port location.
If you ask for a "normal to" on the flats one turns the part horizontal and the other vertical.
My colleague says I am getting an odd answer from the measure tool because it is reading the "normal to" in the opposite directions. If this is true then an option arrow should be added to the measure tool to ensure the desired response when measuring angles.
Does his explanation of the results from the measure tool make sense?
Or better yet, does my explanation of the problem even make sense?
Do we need an enhancement request or did I just do something wrong when I built the part. (I built it as a SW newbie a few years back).
kd1959
SolidWorks 2008 SP3.0, PDMWorks
4GB Ram,3GB switch
2x AMD Opteron 254,2x 19" Viewsonic
Quadro FX 3500






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kd1959
SolidWorks 2008 SP3.0, PDMWorks
4GB Ram,3GB switch
2x AMD Opteron 254,2x 19" Viewsonic
Quadro FX 3500
RE: Measure tool gives Wrong Answer???
If you can somehow get your surfaces to share a common edge then SW will report your desired 96 degrees.
I bet you never get Measure to report any angle greater than 180 degrees.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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I was wondering if others thought this was worthy of an Enhancement Request or is this just too much to ask of the Measure Tool option.
kd1959
SolidWorks 2008 SP3.0, PDMWorks
4GB Ram,3GB switch
2x AMD Opteron 254,2x 19" Viewsonic
Quadro FX 3500
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Jon Knabenschuh
Gemini CAD Solutions
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