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Questions tagged [measurement]

Questions pertaining to measurements in Blender. Real measurements as well as Blender units are acceptable.

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How do you access the ruler?

No matter what I select or where I look I can't find the ruler anywhere. I'm using Blender 2.74, what am I doing wrong?
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Measuring the distance between an inclined plane and another object

let's just say we have a sloping level, like a ceiling. Then we have objects, like cubes, that hang from the ceiling. I wonder if there is any simple way to see the distance between the roof and the cube. Sure, i can measure it, but if there are,…
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Quick and Precise Angle Measurement in Blender?

I'm looking for a precise way to measure angles in blender. The ruler/protractor tool is very limited with the snap to vertex frequently failing in edit mode and only showing two digits beyond the decimal point when it does work. Are there any…
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Surface Area and Volume Measurements

I am fairly new to Blender and I'm hoping to find a way to easily calculate surface area and volume of irregular objects in Blender. I was looking into the Measureit addon, however it seems that I would have to break the measurements up and add them…
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How can I scale a mesh based on known distance between its vertices?

I've got a mesh representing my living room. I built the mesh using Meshroom. I ended up with a few things around the bit of my living room I'm interested in. I want to scale the entire mesh to the real world dimensions, but I do not know the exact…
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Measure Tool - How to Copy Measurement Value to my Clipboard (Blender 2.80)?

How do I copy the active ruler/protractor's measurements to my clipboard in Blender 2.80? In Blender 2.79, pressing ⎈ CtrlC could copy the value to the clipboard, but it doesn't work this way in Blender 2.80. Always manually writing down or…
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How can i measure projected area of any object in blender ? (Ex. shadow from top view)

I'd like to measure the area of the projected front, top or side view of an object. please give me some suggestion Thank you.
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I need help with specific measurement

there! I'm struggling with the measurement right now. I'm new at this and I'm trying to create a business card mockup. I have a specific size, 3.5x2 inches. But I can't get the size right. Can anyone guide me, please?
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How to exactly measure the angle between two spheres, seen from the world origin?

this seems to be a simple question, still I'm surprised that I couldn't find any really satisfying answer... Supposed, I'm looking from Blender's world origin on two spheres sitting in somewhere the x-y-plane, and I want to know the precise angle…
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measure the area of a model when viewed in 2d

I want to measure the area of a model as if it was in 2d, for example if I had a 3d model of a car how could I measure the frontal area? In this measurement things like the length of the bonnet would not matter, it is literally as if counting the…
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Precise, concise edge length measurement using a decimal point

I switched on edge length measurements. For a length of e.g. 1.054 I get a value "1m 5cm". It lacks precision, takes place and is hard to read. Any way of getting a precise value with a decimal point and preferably no unit lengths at all?
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Why does the measurement tool not snap to vertices?

I want to know the width of an edge. So I tried to use the measurement tool and select two vertices. But to my surprise, it did not snap. Why doesn't the measurement tool snap to the vertices when I enable the snapping to vertices option? See…
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How to accurately change the size of my object to a specific size

I created an object and want to scale it to 35cm. Now I am confronted with two problems: I don't know exactly where to set the workspace to metric system and when I tried to add a plane as a reference and changed the size, (I ticked measurement>edge…
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Measurement in edit mode

I downloaded a vehicle from a source that I forgotten. When I enter into edit mode, the face selected show a lot of measurements which made the view very messy. Please see photo 1 and photo 2. Would anybody teach me how to remove those measurement.…
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How to model with precision

My 3D modeling skills are limited to SketchUp, so forgive my lack of experience. I don't understand how to model something, in programs like Blender, with precision when it comes to measurements. How can I make something exactly 1/4 inches thick, or…
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