kwhitt Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 I can't find an answer to this. Is there a tool in CA where I merely click on an arc and the radius will be returned (like in AutoCAD)? I realize I can just use a leader line and fill in the blank, but would be nice to have it automate. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 8 minutes ago, kwhitt said: I can't find an answer to this. Is there a tool in CA where I merely click on an arc and the radius will be returned (like in AutoCAD)? I realize I can just use a leader line and fill in the blank, but would be nice to have it automate. Thanks! I've been asking for labels and various attributes for CAD based objects so we could do stuff like that for quite some time now. In the meantime, the best we have is Line Style>Show Length which DOES display the radius for arcs. It's just really limited what you can do with it is all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitt Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 17 minutes ago, solver said: You can turn this on. Thanks Eric. That's helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 You can also use a point to point dimension with leading text and it will snap the the arc center if that works better for what you are doing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitt Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 44 minutes ago, Chopsaw said: You can also use a point to point dimension with leading text and it will snap the the arc center if that works better for what you are doing. Thanks Chop. Unfortunately, the radius is too small (only 1/4") - no room for text. I'm using a text leader and it's okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Don't forget that if you use a dimension line, you can always drag the dimension text to wherever you like and you can change the dimension text size. Th beauty of using a dimension is that if the geometry changes, the dimension will change as well. Not so with a leader. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitt Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 23 hours ago, glennw said: Don't forget that if you use a dimension line, you can always drag the dimension text to wherever you like and you can change the dimension text size. Th beauty of using a dimension is that if the geometry changes, the dimension will change as well. Not so with a leader. Thanks Glenn - just seeing this. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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