measuring perimeter/area

john_blow

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, I would like the work out the perimeter and area of a sketch which has roughly this shape
O>  (single closed shape)
I can get the volume and surface area of its extrude, and the individual dimensions of the sketch (which I could work out from) but I feel there must be a quick way to know the perimeter of the shape and its area, could someone tell me what I'm missing?
Thanks
John

NeilCooke

@john_blow - select the shaded face in the sketch to get the area - box or individually select all the entities to get the total length/perimeter

viru

@john_blow, Onshape has a very subtle measure feature built right in the lower right corner that will display measure details based on the current selection(s).


- Edges:
line - length
circle - diameter, perimeter
arc - radius, length
- Faces:
Planar face (1): area
Planar face (2): minimum distance
Cylindrical face (1): area
Cylindrical face (2): min distance between

- Points:
Point/vertex (2): distance and X,Y,Z

In Part Studios behavior is straight forward, however measuring in Assemblies is a bit tricky at the moment. Currently the default selection in Assemblies is the entire part so to select measurement entities (faces, edges, points) use Select Other to select these entities. Once you select them, measure results will display in the lower right corner. We are improving this workflow and will update this post once it is live on cad.onshape.com. See below..

NeilCooke

@john_blow - select the shaded face in the sketch to get the area - box or individually select all the entities to get the total length/perimeter