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spacey

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Hi all,

I have to measure a lot of instances of roof spans: dimensions aligned with/parallel to the roof planes (sloping), and measuring between roof/wall intersections. I can't get aligned dimensions to do the job, because they cannot select intersections of roofs and walls as a reference. Is there a way to do this without having to draw a lot of model lines as a work-around?

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You need at least one perpindicular line to start with.  I usually draw a symbollic line that is perpindicular tp hat I want to dimensin, then starting with that, I pick the interesections at each end then reselect the line to remove it.  After finishing the dimension, I delete the symbollic line.

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spacey

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Thanks for that.

hmm still a bit of a work around. It is annoying to not be able to do this sort of dimension directly.

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