How to Get part dimensions from Art of Illusion?

I installed Art of Illusion to examine the parts.

However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the dimensions.
I don't have a reprap (yet) so, by being able to get the dimensions of the parts, I hope to fabricate them.

Can anyone help?

thanks

I used blender when fabricating my parts.. apart from getting scale print-outs, it has a caliper tool which can apparently render measurements

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Wooden Mendel
Teacup Firmware

If you have a complicated part (not a primitive), then you run the solid editor on a part (the solid editor is a plugin). You can then get the X, Y and Z coordinates of two vertices. If the measurement that you are interested in is parallel to one of the axes, simple subtraction will give you the answer.

This is probably not as easy as you had hoped, but it can be done.

I am not aware of any CAD software that costs less than a used car that will give you classic drafting type dimensions automatically.

fdavies

Alibre Design has a free version that will let you do proper dimensioning. Unfortunately, it won't import STL or AOI files, but it does import STEP files quite nicely - there are some STEP assembly files for Mendel in Subversion.

Wade Wrote:
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> Alibre Design has a free version that will let you
> do proper dimensioning. Unfortunately, it won't
> import STL or AOI files, but it does import STEP
> files quite nicely - there are some STEP assembly
> files for Mendel in Subversion.


There is a commercial STL-importer that works well
and a number of tools that claim to convert STL-meshes into STEP-solids
(mostof them don´t work terribly well )

If it´s just meassuring Netfabb Studio Basic does the job well
and is also the best tool to repair broken STLs I´ve seen so far.

I´m currently waiting for my Autodesc Inventor trial-DVDs
to see how well that works but they called me and said that they
had a shortage on the free trial-discs and acompanied manuals
and that it would take about 2 weeks.

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