How to get length of an edge?

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• RawrRanger

  January 5

  Hi BillG,

  I assume that you've switched to auto measure mode, this will automaticallt drops a ruler for you if you are making a line/space type measurement.

  if edge is the targett for measurement, this mode might not be suitable,
  you can clicke the drop down menu next to the ruler anc choose the plan ruler type
  this allows you to manually drop a ruler to measure any arbitaty geomerty.
  
• Matthias

  January 7

  Hi @BillG,

  if your ruler shows arrows, then maybe you have a special style configured. The "Ruler" thing shouldn't display arrows, but a ruler with ticks and labels.

  You can review your settings here: Edit/Ruler and Annotation Setup. These are the defaults for "Ruler":

  

  Matthias
• BillG

  January 9

  @RawrRanger , @ Matthias. Thank you both for your replies. I'm using "Ruler" and I have the same configuration as shown above. It works like you show, except I don't get the measurement value popping up. I'm running 0.28.14 on a Mac with Ventura 13.0.1.

  
• RawrRanger

  January 10

  Hi BillG

  The ruler requires left click to assign measurement location.

  The Ruler type measurement requires 2 input points from the user, see example below:
  

  Different type of measure might requires different input counts
  Ruler type - Ruler : requires 2 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Cross : requires 1 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Measure : requires 1 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Angle : requires 3 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Radius :requires 3 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Ellipse : requires 2 input for measurement
  Ruler type - Box: requires 2 input for measurement
  Ruler type - MultiSegment: takes multiple input, end measurement by double click
• sekigawa

  January 10 edited January 10

  Hi @BillG,
  I assume you are expecting the reading to float (hover) along with the dashed arrow before you click the left button. As @RawrRanger explains above, this is not possible.
  I made an animation to improve my IT skills I'll also confirm the behavior on macOS tonight as well.
  

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  I also have confirmation that the behavior on macOS (Monterey 12.7.2) is the same as it is on Linux.
  
• BillG

  January 10

  Wow, the explanations and animations are great! Now I see that what I thought/want as a feature is that although hovering over an edge does show a 2-headed arrow snapping to the edge, it doesn't show the measurement. You can only get the measurement if you make the two corner clicks, which is how I've been getting the data. @Matthias, can I request that hovering over the edge shows the arrow AND the measurement?

  Thanks for the help, everybody.
• RawrRanger

  January 11 edited January 12

  Hi BillG,

  The plugin in attach provides a edge length info when edge is being hovered.

  To drop an actual ruler, a left click is still required, otherwise the screen will be soon populated by all these annotations.

  It basically works like the build-in ruler typemeasure.

  

  To install this you simply needs to unzip the file and placed under klayout salt package folder: ~\KLayout\salt. A Hover Ruler button will appeared at tool bar after you restart the program .

  Zip
• Matthias

  January 11

  Hi @RawrRanger,

  your code is amazing. Very well done!

  Matthias
• BillG

  January 15

  @RawrRanger Awesome! I expect many members of the community will really appreciate this. Thanks for your contribution. -- BillG