From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
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Measuring in Actify SpinFire - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
Measuring in Actify SpinFire
- [Instructor] So now we're SpinFire Ultimate with the metal plate, SpinFire.dwg file loaded up. Took a few minutes to load up as per the previous video, but now we're in the workspace here in SpinFire. And we've got some really cool tools. This is known as the 3D document toolbar up here. And you'll notice in the drawing area or viewing area in this case, is a proprietary viewer. I can hold down the left hand mouse button, and I can 3D orbit quite happily. You'll also notice we've got a nice little view cube environment. So I can click on the corner of the view cube and that'll bring it in like so. Now I want to show you very quickly how you can measure things in SpinFire. Now there are thousands of functions within SpinFire as a proprietary viewer. I just want to show you a few of them so that you've got an idea of what other proprietary viewers can do. So over here I can measure. So I've got Linear, and I can measure Point Coordinates, Arc Center Coordinates, I can measure an Edge…
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