demonlibra wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:03 am
During the use of FreeCAD, I found the following ways to measure the parameters of circles:
- Workbench Draft
- Workbench Manipulator
- Workbench QuickMeasure
- Macro FCInfo
All of these methods require too many steps to get such basic information.
Perhaps there is an add-on that displays the main parameters of the selected object in the status bar?
Greetings
I noticed that you are using the Quick Measure add-in in your picture.
Your comment about too many steps to get the measurement of a selected object, in your case circle, has me thinking that perhaps our definition of basic information is different. When I wrote Quick Measure my goal was not to quickly measure one entity such as a circle, or a line but to quickly measure between two features. If you pick two points the distance between them is given in x, y, z and distance. If two planes are selected the total area of the planes is given plus the angle between them. Selecting two cylinders measures the distance between them. Select a point and a plane, on two different parts, the measurement is the distance between them as if the plane is extended past the point.
If you want the measurement of each entity, line, point, circle, arc, etc. as you hover over them, Quick Measure was not written for that but it does give the information for the entity when selected. I can also see why having this information would be handy to have but it would not replace Quick Measure.
Because QM was written to measure between two features I made the selection of the first feature a click so a person can rotate the part to select the second feature without losing the first feature.
I hope this is helpful.
Dan