How to check size of the selected edge?

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I had no luck with searching the forum so I started with a new thread.
Question may sound trivial, but it isn’t. (or maybe it is?)

With below example (it’s simple to help you understand my problem) I started with a basic plane - 2 units wide, 2 units high. Then I extruded one vertex, 6 units down.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2662/problemjh4.jpg

How to check that this edge is indeed 6 units high?

Transform Properties in Edit Mode (both in local and global display) desn’t say so. In Object Mode it gives me only the whole size of ‘model’.

Is there a good, easy and fast way to get such an information? Counting it isn’t very good.

Thanks in advice.

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In edit tools [F9] on the “Mesh Tools 1” tab there’s a button labled “Edge Length”. Click that and all the slected edges of a mesh in Edit Mode will display their exact length.

If you have a large number of edges the display can be very slow so you may want to be sure you have deselected all other edges.

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What Marty_D said, plus to get accurate lengths, do Ctrl-A on the object in Object mode first to apply any scaling and rotations you’ve done.

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Thank You! That little button was always there.

Thank you both so much!

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hah, yes there are a lot of those buttons in blender. :slight_smile: