Simple measurement question, need alittle help...

[Jeff Andresen]

Say I'm measuring the width of a box. If I use 2d distance between 2 planes, the result is the shortest distance between the planes. What if a portion is oversize, the oversize area does not show out of tolerance. Is there a better way to measure this?
Thanks...

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Well, if you are measuring the width of a box, do a line on each side, then a line on each end, interesect the corners, then do a distance of the intersection points, that will give you the width at each end of the box.

[John R]

Did you ever try the max/min feature?

[than_357]

Did you ever try the max/min feature?

If it's simple, I'd agree that a 3D distance and min/max is the easy route. After that, you can get as complicated as you want to find the truth.

Tom

[emkay4597]

couldn't you just level on one side and measure the other at top bottom left and right? or maybe at the four corners? Does your print specify the datum plane?