Blender 2.8 How to see edge length and face area

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In this blender (2.8) tutorial we go over how to view edge length and face area on any model. This can be extremely useful for measurement based modelling.
How to view normals: • Blender 2.8 How to vie...
Step 1:
Go to edit mode
Step 2:
Go to overlay and find the measurement section
Step 3:
Enable edge length and face area

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@vstreet7583 5 жыл бұрын

As a new Blender user, your simple short tips are really helpful. I will be watching all of your videos. Thank you. Dg

@trexoman54 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Concise, no bad jokes, no "ums", or round about ramblings, just straight to the point.

@notarobot528 4 жыл бұрын

You saved me a lot of time and my ass from screwing up in my job. Can't thank you enough for your cool videos !!

@Slaveofhell01 5 жыл бұрын

thank you so much, was looking for it and didn't think of clicking the overlay menu

@CoreMaster111 5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering where this feature was on 2.8. Thank you!

@CGMatter 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

@supermas3 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the quick and clear explanation. Got right to the point. Exactly what I needed.

@Penguincop24 3 жыл бұрын

Warning: Do not scale it in object mode. The measurements won't change in edit mode.

@ArchaicVirusStudios 2 жыл бұрын

You CAN scale in object mode. Before entering edit mode hit shift + a, then apply transforms, tab to edit mode, measurements are updated.

@everybot-it 2 жыл бұрын

@@ArchaicVirusStudios hm... what do you mean by "before entering edit mode"? In object mode, this shortcut adds a new object

@lennart-oimel9933 2 жыл бұрын

@@everybot-it He meant cntrl + a

@sebastianrodriguezsolis5370 3 жыл бұрын

Finally!!, a straight to the point tutorial. excellent thanks a lot

@daringetae5136 4 жыл бұрын

Yes it definitely hoped. Thank you for posting.

@ukmonk 5 жыл бұрын

thanks so much, wondered where this had gone in 2.8

@soraquestern 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for having a quick and informative video!

@meow710 5 жыл бұрын

You said hopefully this helped? NO. it didn't help. But it REALLY REALLY HELPED me! I have been searching for addon just to display edge length information just like this. I spent a whole day and found nothing. And you showed it without any addon :D

@CGMatter 5 жыл бұрын

@MichaelHooo 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, thank you!

@frozthound 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u mate, this is really helpful.

@fazruljalaluddin Жыл бұрын

this helps a lot, thanks sir!

@ARBB1 4 жыл бұрын

CGMatter saves me once again, might the Lord save you as well.

@evilby 3 жыл бұрын

very helpful. Thanks a lot!!!

@user-tg9kn4gz1j 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for helping

@janherfs3063 3 жыл бұрын

Was searching for 30 minutes until I decided to check online... Thanks

@sigrid714 4 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to change the floating point rounding accuracy of the edge length measurements that are longer than 3 digits? Like for example, 15.5cm will display as 15.5cm, but if an edge is 100.5cm long it shows up as 101cm instead of "100.5cm"? The only work around I can find is to check "Separate Units" under Scene Units options, but that shows a verbose "100cm 5mm" instead of a less cluttery "100.5cm".

@maxbennedbk7085 2 жыл бұрын

nice, i didnt know how to do that till today

@TrentisN 4 жыл бұрын

Any way to export with these measurements showing?

@BlenderBurst 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Jono1982 5 жыл бұрын

thank you

@azeli0ne 3 жыл бұрын

so if i were to create a texture, do i just follow the same proportions based on the length shown? for example in my file the face length proportion is 1:1 but it doesn't really look like a square.. so what do i do?

@wh1t3w1zzskywalker7 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🖖

@deaddudeg6701 10 ай бұрын

cool, thanks :3

@nanachickh 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!!

@CGMatter 5 жыл бұрын

Your welcome :)

@Crucidal 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being accurate and concise :-) Do you know if it possible to edit the font size and/or color of these measurements? Currently I have both edge length and angle enabled, but the colors blend into the background so I can hardly read it. (it is not influenced by settings > interface > resolution scale)

@BenRacicot 4 жыл бұрын

@@vgwizardx Prefs / *Themes* / Text style in 2.83 But I'm missing how this changes color.

@darealdrsp 2 жыл бұрын

Blender has WAY too many ways to skin a cat when it comes to adding measurements. I'm just starting out with Blender, however if you want control of font size/colour etc., the measureit add on (already built into Blender) is the way to go)

@DreyzieArt 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone know where to find the Measurement checkboxes in 2.82? They removed them from the overlay menu for some reason.

@everybot-it 2 жыл бұрын

when you scale the object, the measurements don't seem to update though.

@joaopaulo0903 Жыл бұрын

thanks

@oskaredlund3594 4 жыл бұрын

is there a way to make the numbers only show up for your selected bounding box insted of on every edge within the selection ?

@ahmedkhalil1396 3 ай бұрын

you found away

@manubra5853 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to reset these measurements? I’m maning a lot of exact size objects but it always shows 2 meters in length..

@PlanetXtreme 3 жыл бұрын

I have no Clue what the issue is, but is says 2 meters for my default cube when I spawn it in, and a significantly larger object also says 2M long. what the hell.

@serenity8839 2 жыл бұрын

This might be a really basic thing... but coming from other programs were you dont need to activate stuff first and "Global" is a set value. How would one, for example in Maya select the 4 bottom point click "0" in Y in maya i think Z would be the up and down in Blender and have it hit the globes exact "0" point. As i want something to be 168 CM tall which i could do with manual clicks, but seems the faster methods id use in Maya Cinema ect dont apply too blender any ideas what im doing wrong? im not sure i can explain it very well either haha but its a super basic part of my workflow i find hard to replace.

@Arkantolas Жыл бұрын

is there a way to make it so that the measurements are always shown instead of only when something is selected?

@U.O.S 18 күн бұрын

What about the diameter, how do I show it if I have a hollow cylinder?

@Geech843 3 ай бұрын

How to change the distance to the “correct” measurement? When scaling and adjusting, I’m not getting a “accurate” measurement for my model…. It’s like I’m guessing where I need to be. I’ve looked at a lot of videos and not 1 shows how to input the correct measurement length for a model.

@gamingcoffeemaster Жыл бұрын

Finally my renders can be to scale 👍

@fyuumi_uncut8871 Жыл бұрын

@SaynYT 3 жыл бұрын

I don't have any measurement option in the overlays tab...........

@ripsaw2322 3 ай бұрын

I change me units from inches to metric mm but what I have on my plane says a much different size when I go to edit object mode. In edit mode it says 610mm and in the object mode the length says 50.8mm which is 2 inches. Why in edit mode everything read different. In object mode I know something is supposed to be 1 inch which is 22.9mm. I switch to Edit mode and it reads 610mm which is 24 inches. Why does something I know is 1in read as 610mm and something else I know is 2in read the same 610mm? wth...

@fini69 4 жыл бұрын

thx

@nigeldenning5810 4 жыл бұрын

In Blender 2.82 (the current version), the Overlays drop-down is gone!! Any idea how to do this with the new version?

@studioinattendu 4 жыл бұрын

Its under the 3rd dropdown arow. On the left to the "Show Overlay buton"

@hextasy000 4 жыл бұрын

@@studioinattendu jebus, thank you!

@harmsc12 4 жыл бұрын

The knuckleheads made it into some bizarre, unintuitive icon. Why they need to make everything a tiny icon instead of providing proper labels is beyond me. I've just started using Blender 2.82, and I've lost count of the times I've screamed at my computer over some nonsense interface decisions.

@IrishWannabe 2 жыл бұрын

for some reason it still show me that its 2m in side even tho i set the sizes to be diffrent

@user-tz8yq3jy8s 4 жыл бұрын

OMAGAD THENQUE WERI MUCH!!!

@Jamie-wh3kd 3 жыл бұрын

can i just input numbers and have it scale to the correct length?

@MrmerryPippin-tw6rv 3 жыл бұрын

This^^ I want to know how to do this!

@YeloPartyHat 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone know how to do this in blender 2.93?

@richNfit4life 4 жыл бұрын

My Blender 2.8 does not have "overlays" where you have it. Has it been moved? Where is it now, please? I would very much appreciate some assistance. THX.

@santermens23 4 жыл бұрын

I have the same issue

@richNfit4life 4 жыл бұрын

Santtu Hirviö - What I tried in order to fix that problem was.....I uninstalled Blender and downloaded a new copy from blender.org and installed that one. Now, it works. “Overlays” is there at the top, although it is not written out like in the video, but there none the less. Have you tried uninstalling yours and installing a new download of Blender?

@SevenDeMagnus 4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@CaioZenon 3 жыл бұрын

I dont get it, i have a cube with 88.5mm each edge but in edit mode it shows me the edge with 42.5mm.

@CaioZenon 3 жыл бұрын

I just found out that the measurements follows the original "Scale", no matter the actual "Dimensons". This is quite frustrating, how can i avoid that?

@seenPunktSee 2 жыл бұрын

@@CaioZenon maybe this is too late, but you can either select the object with changed scale then press ctrl+a in object mode and select scale. This should set the scale to 1 without changing the size. Or you download Measurelt Tool -Addon

@vehrmann 2 жыл бұрын

Make sure to enable "Text info" on the top of the overlay menu. Otherwise you won't see any measurements

@johnkoren6376 4 жыл бұрын

Is that really 2 meters x 2 meters? Or is that cm?

@dreamhax2888 4 жыл бұрын

My life is now 100% better.

@PinkeySuavo 3 жыл бұрын

These lenghts are different than ones I measure with measurement tool. Also, when I create a cube and insert "1.55m" size, it shows a 1.2m edge. What's wrong with it?

@Yassir.A.P. 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you scale in object mode and haven't applied the scale (Ctrl A in object mode > Scale)

@PinkeySuavo 3 жыл бұрын

@@Yassir.A.P. Hey, yeah, as far as I remember pressing Apply solved the problem. Thanks for response! :) P. S. So if I scale in edit mode, I dont have to press apply later on?

@Yassir.A.P. 3 жыл бұрын

@@PinkeySuavo modifying in edit mode is like making it "it was like that since it was created/born". Imagine you have a car model. With its rotations at 0, 0, 0 (X, Y, Z), its tires are at the below the car body. But if you flip the car in edit mode so that its tires are on top side, you make it like the car by default is like that, the tires on top. This also applies to its scale. If you have a 2 x 2 x 2m cube, and its scale is 1, 1, 1; it means by default thats the original size, and if the scale in object mode becomes 2, 2, 2 means the dimensions are now 4 x 4 x 4 m, double the scale.

@PinkeySuavo 3 жыл бұрын

@@Yassir.A.P. Okay, thanks for help!

@sword42494 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t seem to find the overlays menu

@MarcosACamargo 3 жыл бұрын

if you're using blender 2.9 this menu is that double circle on the right side

@HyenaHorror 2 күн бұрын

⚠No longer accurate in Blender 4.0. The option has moved from Overlays to Mesh Edit Mode Overlays. After entering Edit Mode a new icon appears to the right of the Overlays dropdown. Click that icon for a dropdown that includes measurement overlays.

@Dumbc0mment 3 жыл бұрын

I have a rectangle and it says the length is 1.75m and the width is 2m, lol why

@Ahtisham 3 жыл бұрын

i have scaled two different planes to almost the same size and one is showing different measurements than the other why is that so?i don't understand why is this happening,am i doing anything wrong here?

@diceblue6817 3 жыл бұрын

ctrl-a apply the transforms. only scale edit mode - if you scale in object mode, apply that scale to the actual mesh

@Ahtisham 3 жыл бұрын

@@diceblue6817 ok thanks man,let me see

@santermens23 4 жыл бұрын

What the heck?! My blender doesn't have a overlays tab, do I have to turn it on somehow?

@user-fj5nx9om6u 4 жыл бұрын

yep, me too

@glennsmith8173 4 жыл бұрын

Mine doesn't say overlays unless I hover over it, but the icon is there and the same as on the video; a filled in circle and a non-filled in circle intersecting circle edge to circle center. Unfortunately, it gives me incorrect measurements.

@glennsmith8173 4 жыл бұрын

It seems that when I modify dimensions under transform, these dimensions are not tracked in the overlays display. It only works if I resize with the mouse.