CURVED LINE MEASUREMENT

[APOKUMEA]

Dear all,

It's my first time on international discussion groups, I usually use spanish
groups home.

I have a question about how to get the correct measurement of a curved line.

Actually I'm working with visio 2003 and I can not find an stencil that let
me the measurement of a curve line.

I mean that if I want to know the distance between a curved line the
measurement is the straigt line between X to Y but not the real measurement
of the curve.

I need a tool like the pensil to draw a paht on a map where are included
straig lines and curved lines and then get the result of the distance, but I
don't know how to do it , and I don't know how to modify the details of the
stecil for that.

I friend of mine told me that in a old version of vision that's possible but
I don't know.

Sorry by my english but I'm spanish.

Anybody can help me?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Paul Herber]

In the Walls, Doors and Windows stencil there is a shape called (in
English) Controller Dimension.

 

[APOKUMEA]

Thanks for your response, Paul.

What I really need is not to be able to control the dimension of a straight
line but to be able to measure a curved line from point to point, following
the line directly, i.e. not directly from A to B "as the crow flies" but
following, for example, a curved path inside a box.

 

[Paul Herber]

Ah sorry, I misread the meaning of your:
"I mean that if I want to know the distance between a curved line the
measurement is the straigt line between X to Y but not the real
measurement of the curve."

 

[APOKUMEA]

Dear Paul,

So, do you know any idea how to get that? Do you think that there is any
tool or stencil for that?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Paul Herber]

Dear Paul,

So, do you know any idea how to get that? Do you think that there is any
tool or stencil for that?

For an arc? geometry - pi, radius and arc length.
For an arbitrary curved line ? you need the line formula and some
calculus.

 

[Paul Herber]

P.S. you should normall only ask your question once in a single
newsgroup, posting in multiple newsgroups may even have the opposite
effect of what you intend. You may get ignored or put into the "deal
with that later" box.

 

[APOKUMEA]

Dear Paul,

Thanks a lot for your advice, it's my first time on this group. In spain
there is only one group, so we don't have this problem.

I attach my querie on the three groups because of I didn't know what was
more acurate for my question.

Thanks again.

About your answer, I have to say that I tryed to change on the SHAPESHEET's
stencil, but I don't know what to do and how I have to do.

Do you know if there is any specific explanation for that or exercice for
that?

It's my first time changing shapesheet parameters of a stencil.

Thanks in advance.