Is there any way to get around Sketchup’s inability to attach a dimension to something other than a point? Let’s say I need to show a dimension that originates from a point but ends at an arbitrary spot on a line: [image] It will show the dimension on the screen, but it won’t snap to that point …

[image] Nathank9000: Like, if there was a way to take the Line tool, and merge its function with the Dimensions tool, so you could draw a line from “point” to “arbitrary location”, and then turn it into a dimension Is this an option, see image: [Screenshot 2024-03-21 16.24.57] Moving the r…

assuming working in sketchup make a dimension into a Dynamic Component drop this into component folder dim.skp (8.6 KB) whereas in layout, where the annotations should be, select a dim object. move, scale…

Am not sure what you want to measure? … if you are not measuring “to” a point … then what are you measuring to? Also … am not sure what you mean by “fake” vertex. Regardless, here are some possible solutions to measuring to a “random” point along a line in SketchUp: You can make “the” line int…

[image] egodsey: if you are not measuring “to” a point … then what are you measuring to? The distance from a vertex/point to a line. [image] None of these dimensions are possible to do in Sketchup, without plugins. But in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and other programs, it’s a basic function.

[image] egodsey: which implies that the point is visible, but that you do not know “where” it is … and that you want to be able to precisely define where it is. The point is “wherever this dimension line is going to cross the line I’m trying to measure to”. [image] Upper-right corner of thi…

Basically, I’m trying to do this: [image] From a point (where 2 lines meet) to a “virtual point” on a line somewhere else. Sketchup gets the 1st, really doesn’t get the 2nd.

[image] Nathank9000: None of these dimensions are possible to do in Sketchup, without plugins No plugins used. [image]

OK, I should have said “without extensions or some extra steps”. I’m trying to understand your process, it might work.

[image] Nathank9000: OK, I should have said “without extensions or some extra steps”. I’m trying to understand your process, it might work. pretty sure box did that [image] Possible to have dimensions end at a perpendicular to line (not a point)? Pro I also can’t …

Possible to have dimensions end at a perpendicular to line (not a point)?

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I also can’t think of a use case but you can use a guide point to dimension to, it can be deleted after and you can move the dimension if you want.
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Possible to have dimensions end at a perpendicular to line (not a point)?

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