Cant belive CorelDraw had this feature years ago and Adobe has not picked it up.

You don't need more details............ Put in a dimension tool for us................ The jpg in the original post tells you everything you need to know. Plus radius/ diameter tools too.
Why so against a dimension tool guys? No one has ever answered that question as far as i know!

could be simple like in Corel.
It´s essential!!

The measuring tool and art board size mentioned on this are my biggest problems working with Illustrator. Almost every design program I've worked with (except Adobe programs) have these. Which are daily used and affect entire work flow. So I'm forced to choose to use other programs or hinder the speed to finish a project.

Hey, since so many years people ask for a measurement tool in Ai, it would be soo great if you guys would bring it in. I know, it is not ment to be a construction programm, but as i´m a shop window creator, we create with Ai and PS and i would be great just to make easily a plan for he constructors or even size discriptions for large banner printing and so on...
So please bring it up the sky!!!
Thank you!

Requiring overly detailed explanations allows them to push the can down the road. There are numerous plugins that have been referenced, dozens of other applications in the market (that haven't been around nearly as long as Illustrator) with these tools, and plenty of responses spelling out what the basic functionality could/should look like.
There are already measuring tools inside Illustrator which will show length and angle, they just need to organize a new interface to display that information as an overlay. It would be incredible if they were able to incorporate more parametric functionality, but let's start crawling before trying to run a marathon...
Also, claiming AI isn't a technical drawing software and scripts are the answer is about the most short-sighted response I can imagine. Why add any new features if there are scripts out there you can learn to write yourself‽ (Just keep paying Adobe and spending your valuable time learning script languages instead of being a designer or illustrator, etc...)

"We DoNt UnDeRstaNd feATuRe ReQueSTs WithouT a FuLl deSiGn BrieF, PlS clARifY" - Adobe

This is feature request equivalent of the "Check to see if your graphics card drivers are up to date for this 20 year old Photoshop bug."

Please read comments and use common sense.

Illustrator is not a technical drawing software and Hotdoor add-in do the job, even if it is frustrating to pay twice.
I think a simple series of scripts can do the job for what we usually need.
A series of scripts to linear dimensions align dimension, radius dimensions, diameter dimensions and angle dimensions can do the job if they respect ANSI standards.
A well-commented script is easy to customize and could be an introduction to learn the script editing.
Answer for the Sharma question:
No, it is not enough for a dimension takes in Adobe XD service. Often, we need dimensions on the artwork with a highly graphic quality.

Very basic CAD tools built in to illustrator would make Illustrator even more amazing. Tools such as the ability to change the dimension of simple shapes (length of line, radius/diameter of a circle, etc) after it has been drawn and then the ability to constrain it. Also, placing automatic dimensions (linear and angular) and measuring would be sweet tools. Sometimes I need my shape or lines to be a certain length or constrained to a certain angle and I have no way of doing this easily at the moment from within illustrator. Currently, I'm importing a dxf file from CAD software and it still gets hosed up. It's time consuming and I'm ripping my hair out trying to fix things that didn't translate well. Thank you for the consideration!

Hi, Yoogesh, I am very late on this. I am working in the packaging design industry. And what I do to measure and mark the dimension is first to do the KLD in CorelDraw and measuring and marking the dimensions using the DIMENSIONS TOOLS (Parallel Dimension works fine for me) and then export the artwork as EPS into Illustrator.

The measurements are very important in packaging design. I think it's high time companies like you understand the user base and understand their needs.

Yes, please. Add dimensions. I'm making this **** manually and it takes so much time for something that should obviously be part of the app. Click on end points shift/drag to pull out a measurement. Angles and curves would be great, but right now I'd be thrilled if I could just do this on regular horizontal and vertical lines.

We keep asking, whats the problem Adobe?????????????

Dear Yogesh,

Do you still need more info? Go try to do it yourself. It's a basic thing. Make something and then dimension it. It's not like you need to user test it on 10,000 users, its a pretty basic thing.

Basic conceptual Workflow:

- Draw a square
- Draw a line down one side
- Put in a measurement that says how tall the square is.

If you can get the computer to learn the dimension of the square bonus!

Same concept for angles, circles, extrusions etc.

And again just to say no separate services, this should be a tool and a panel.

I have been wanting this feature for well over a decade -- Please ADD!

Recently broke down and purchased CADTools because the need for dimensional tools had grown so much. It has been super buggy and causes the occasional crash. The time that it saves though is monumental, even with the issues. There has to be some other underlying issue as to why this has not been added? Then we cant even get a response from Adobe on this topic?? Im not wearing my foil hat yet, but what is the deal?? It just seams so simple... especially if Corel can do it??

The dimension tool would save literally hours for me. I work as a graphic designer for retail, exhibition, signage and wayfinding and all require clearly marked dimensions for artwork and communication to vendors. The need and hope for Adobe to add this to Illustrator has not changed for me in 10+ years. I hope we can have a solution to this soon!

Come on Adobe, we need dimensioning tools to do our job! We're using AI to draw very precise dies and need to verify that every part of our drawing meets our customers specs. Please add dimensioning tools to the software now.

Look at ANY cad software that offers dimensioning, and those are the tools you need in Illustrator (AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, etc). As long as everyone in this forum is so quick to suggest CADtools, how about starting with just mimicking those tools inside Illustrator? Why keep developing other tools each year that no one asked for, and ignore the thing that has been demanded for 10 years now? If you can't do that, just buy HotDoor. You have all the money. --- "Adobe achieved record annual revenue of $11.17 billion in fiscal year 2019, representing 24 percent year-over-year growth."

Considering the response from the staff above, it really surprises me. Please open CorelDraw and try their Dimension tool and it makes Illustrator like an ancient software. This feature has been available in CorelDraw for years, I wonder what the Illustrator staffs are doing.

- According to me this HAS to be in illustrator and not separate.
- Angles are good idea, but primarily it's width and length.
- Isometric 45° or 30° tool for 3D illustrations would also be hella useful.
- As mentioned before look at the way fusion 360 sketch tool works. Or even Sketch Up measure tool.