Summary: Many improvements could be made to the measure tool, the most critical of which for me is to report the alpha and beta of compound angles to the closest primary axis.

Description: There are many improvements that could be made to the measure tool to make it less cumbersome. However, I have been burned most of all by the angle measure tool measuring the compound angle between two planes or a plane and vector, but not reporting the Delta alpha and Delta beta compound components.

In steerable suspensions there are multiple compound angles that need to be considered in their nearest x-y-z planer components for settings such as toe, camber, caster, etc. Even with complex work plane and axis geometries I have yet to get a reliable measure of any of these angles using Inventor.

Product and Feature: Inventor - Assemblies

Submitted By: Sam Sather on 10/18/2012