Measuring (not point to point)

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Hi, just starting with Shapr3D and have designed quite a good amount of working models to feed my 3D printer successfully, some of them rather complex. What I struggle with is the basic function of measuring between sides of objects at areas that do not have points. The point-to-point measuring tool only allows measuring between defined points but not in the middle or anywhere in an object. I tried searching high and low but am no closer to finding a solution (maybe there isn’t one) as I would think that’s a pretty basic function, no?

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Have you tried tapping on the faces, then looking down at the bottom of the screen? There you will see distances, min, max, and some other parameters.

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Unfortunately, it does not give you the dimensions needed. Here is an object as an example, just quickly want to see the lid’s outside dimensions (left to right) but have not found a way to measure reliable other than using the sketch tool and drawing a line, and deleting afterward.

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You can add projected edge that will let you do measurements at any time in a future.