What would be the best way to inspect the dimension in the picture? It is from the point where the curved detail meets the plate down to where the curved detail meets the other flat surface. Is there an accurate way to find intersection points of the different details? It may be a little easier to check if there wasn't weld where each of these details come together.
From the picture it looks like you could take a plane on the flat surface and use that plane as your active workplane. Then measure the those features on the inside and construct the points from them.
Excuse my ignorance, tking, but what do you mean by a "3d Line"? It seems when I make that top surface my workplane, the line appears to be parallel with the workplane. Is there another way to do this create a line without going into another workplane?
Markus, to create 3D lines you can either take single points on the surface you want to create the line on then construct a line. When the box open to select the points, select 3D line instead of 2D. The other way to easily do this is to take your hits on the surface for a line and end it. Looking at the feature, you can hover over the workplane, MEAS/LINE,HITS*(NUMBER OF HITS YOU TOOK), WORKPLANE* (whatever work plane your in). Hover over this workplane, click, and select 3D.
Markus, I would use the single point method as bharpold described, pick the points on the model and keep each row of points (for a line) at the same value along one axis (modify that value in that axis) the model will provide the correct approach vectors.
