Std Measure
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| Menu location |
|---|
| Tools → Measure |
| Workbenches |
| All |
| Default shortcut |
| None |
| Introduced in version |
| 1.0 |
| See also |
| Draft Dimension |
Description
The Std Measure command gives access to the Unified Measurement Facility. It replaces several previous measurement commands, providing a versatile measurement functionality.
Usage
- Optionally preselect the entities to be measured.
- Press the
Std Measure button or select the Tools → Measure option from the menu. - If no geometrical entities were preselected, do one of the following:
- Select the geometrical entities while leaving the Mode as Auto so that the mode will be automatically determined based on the selection.
- Choose the Mode other than Auto and then select the geometrical entities (clicking on them again will deselect them):
- Distance - the shortest distance between the selected entities,
- Distance Free - distance between two freely selected points (belonging to different entities - edges, faces),
- Angle - angle between the selected entities,
- Length - length of the selected edge,
- Position - coordinates of the selected vertex,
- Area - area of the selected face,
- Radius - radius of the selected circular edge,
- Center of Mass - COM of the selected edge, face or solid (only if preselected in the tree).
- The measurement result will be shown in the Result field and on a label displayed in the 3D view. That label will also include an icon indicating the type of measurement. The labels can be customized in the Preferences. They can be moved in the 3D view by dragging them with a cursor.
- Click Reset to delete the measurement or Save to keep it (saved measurements will be kept in Measurements container in the tree view).
- Click Close to exit the command.
Options
- Show Delta - enables or disables the DataShow Delta property (display of projected measurements) used for Distance and Distance Free modes. Enabled by default.
Properties
View
Appearance
- DataFont Size (
Integer): Defines the font size for the label of the saved dimension. - DataLine Color (
Color): Defines the color of the dimension lines displayed in 3D view. - DataShow Delta (
Bool): If true, projected distance measurements are displayed in 3D view. Available only for Distance and Distance Free measurements. Projected measurement values are also always accessible in the Measurement group of the Data property tab. - DataText Background Color (
Color): Defines the background color of the dimension label. - DataText Color (
Color): Defines the color of the dimension label text and symbol.
Notes
- This command is the result of a GSoC 2023 project.
Std Base
- File: New, Open, Open Recent, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Document information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Exit
- Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Properties, Edit mode, Preferences
- View:
- Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Persistent section cut, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Material, Appearance, Random color, Color per face, Toggle transparency, Workbench, Status bar
- Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Align to selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Store working view, Recall working view
- Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
- Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
- Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
- Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
- Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
- Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability
- Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Individual views, Structure, Help, Lock toolbars
- Panels: Tree view, Property view, Model, Selection view, Python console, Report view, Tasks, DAG view
- Dock window overlay: Toggle overlay for all, Toggle transparent for all, Toggle overlay, Toggle transparent, Bypass mouse events in docked overlay windows, Toggle left, Toggle right, Toggle top, Toggle bottom
- Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
- Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection back, Selection forward
- Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Export dependency graph, Document utility, Add text document, View turntable, Units converter, Customize, Addon manager, Measure
- Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint
- Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This, Start
- Additional:
- Miscellaneous: Create part, Create group, Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links, Make link group, Create a variable set, Select all instances, Toggle freeze
- Expression actions: Copy selected, Copy active document, Copy all documents, Paste
- Selection filter: Vertex selection, Edge selection, Face selection, All selection filters cleared
User documentation
- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Material, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub