Dimensioning to the middle of a hole...

kjacob

Hi Folks,

Newbie here.

I couldn't figure out an elegant way to dimension to the middle of a hole in a plate and ended up having to "fake out" SU with two dummy lines, as shown.

Can anyone show me a better way to do this?

Thanks very much for any help.

Ken

tomsdesk

If you hover a moment on the edge of a circle then move to the center it will usually snap to the center inference point....usually.

ridix

You can try to build the “Guide Point” first where hole center needs to be located. Than you can dimension it and construct the hole from it as well.

Jean Lemire

Hi Ken, hi folks.

See this SU file for ideas.

Dimensionning without points to attach.skp

kjacob

Hello Jean,

PERFECT!

Thank you very much.

(And to the others.)

Ken

Gaieus

Tom's method worked perfctly and for the first try, too!

Hazza

Then there is the CentrePoint plugin from Smustard that will create a guide point for you.

Select the circle, Plugins -> Set center point, then dimension to the guide point.