Phileas Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 (edited) So I just arrived back to my office after holidays, and I start working like I usually do and come to a point where I need to measure the vertical distance between to point, which is normally nothing difficult... Like I always do, I grab my tape measuring tool (that one: ) (yeah I'm french) and start measuring. But somehow it doesn't work like it used to: if I scroll the mouse-wheel while measuring because I need to zoom out or in, the point I clicked to start the measuring moves as well, making it impossible to move the screen while measuring. But that's not the end: it seems like the tool doesn't actually measure the distance between 2 points anymore: if I measure the distance between 2 points (whithout zooming while doing it) it mesures something, but depending on my zoom level, the distance between the 2 same points changes drastically (see attached screenshots) , making me wonder if I somehow broke my measuring tool lol. Update: after testing about everything, I figured out the tool still works normally in a Plan view. But that's all if I go to any 3D view my tape tool goes kaputt 😞 Edited January 7, 2019 by Phileas 1 Quote Link to comment
herbieherb Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 (edited) Make sure that you measure in the right plane. In 3D you can measure the distance on the screen-plane, on the layer plane, a custom working plane or an automatic plane. Don't rely on what you see in your model, as a line coul'd look right but you measure into an unintentional direction. When you are in a 3D-View setting the active plane as automatic is a good desicion in most cases. Edited January 7, 2019 by herbieherb Quote Link to comment
Phileas Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 @herbieherb Thank you so much, worked perfectly 🙂 Quote Link to comment
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