Measurements in an assembly

stuart_forbes

Hi all,

New to Cad and OnShape. I have been tinkering around with a "hotend" mount for my 3d printer. I have reproduced the hotend and assembled it. In theory this hotend assembly can have different overall lengths depending on how far each part is screwed in. How can I measure the final assembly, end to end? This would help me get the right depth and relationship to the other parts

Cheers, Stu 

nav

Hi @stuart_forbes , @lougallo wrote this post (https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/95/measurement-in-onshape) about the measuring feature in assembly. In your case that you want to measure final length select two features (reference geometries) from your model and you`ll get the length between them. 

nav

Hi @stuart_forbes , @lougallo wrote this post (https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/95/measurement-in-onshape) about the measuring feature in assembly. In your case that you want to measure final length select two features (reference geometries) from your model and you`ll get the length between them. 

stuart_forbes

Thanks Nav, will try it out.