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I'm designing a part for 3D printing, but I do not know how to cut an angled edge at a precise absolute X position. I marked in red the place where I would like to insert a vertex. It's exactly 2 units (millimeters) from the left. So far I was unable to achieve this with desired precision.

Scene with point marked in red

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First attempt. Using GG to move the vertex along the line and snapping to another vertex failed because apparently this tool uses local reference system.

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Second attempt. using TinyCAD plugin. Worked perfectly! I created a second edge that intersected the angled one, and used XALL to insert a vertex on the intersection.

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    $\begingroup$ TinyCAD solution will work for this if you extrude that vertex down blender.stackexchange.com/questions/2976/…. Vertex slide doesn't use snapping to other geometry hence it's not the best choice for precise work in this case. $\endgroup$
    – Mr Zak
    Commented Jul 21, 2019 at 21:18
  • $\begingroup$ @MrZak Can you post it as an answer so I can accept it? It worked perfectly! $\endgroup$
    – Filip Franik
    Commented Jul 21, 2019 at 21:24
  • $\begingroup$ Not going to add it since I think it might be a duplicate of already asked question here like blender.stackexchange.com/questions/2976/… or alike. Add answer yourself instead if you wish $\endgroup$
    – Mr Zak
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 21:38

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You could subdivide the edge to add a vertex. Select the vertex and press GG to slide the vert. Make sure snapping is set to vertex and then click on the vert shown at 2 units above. This should line up the lower vertex on the angled line with the vertex above

The vertex above could be place at 2 units with snapping set to increment absolute grid.

Answer above incorrect. New solution:

Ok this one bugged me as it should be possible to do this. I turned on edge length in the overlay

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I subdivided the angled edge to create a vert and then GG and dragged the vert to the starting vert on the edge. I am working in m so in the image you can see 0m.

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With the vert still selected I dragged it back along the angled edge whilst holding shift to get a more precise value. I moved the vert until it was at 0.5m

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Should be able to use this technique for other stuff

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  • $\begingroup$ Unfortunately this didn't work. I edited the question with description of my attempt. $\endgroup$
    – Filip Franik
    Commented Jul 21, 2019 at 21:07
  • $\begingroup$ sorry about that and when I think about it even if you could snap it would not have produced the correct result. Will also look at TinyCad - good luck $\endgroup$
    – barkest
    Commented Jul 21, 2019 at 21:30
  • $\begingroup$ I know you already have a solution but original answer edited with hopefully a workable solution without an add on. $\endgroup$
    – barkest
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 7:41
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    $\begingroup$ Unfortunately your way requires use of calculator :) To achieve X = 2mm on a 30deg angled edge I need to calculate 2mm / cos(30deg) so the edge needs to be 2.309mm long I use EditTools2 plugin and it's "Set Edge Length" tool to do similar thing precisely. $\endgroup$
    – Filip Franik
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 7:51
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Filip. I had not used set edge length and just tried it, works great $\endgroup$
    – barkest
    Commented Jul 22, 2019 at 8:49

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