# Angle measurement tool

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** proposal
**Created:** [July 10, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487 "2023-07-10T21:23:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Julien\_Bomberault](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Julien\_Bomberault](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Julien_Bomberault)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487/1 "2023-07-10T21:23:27Z")

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Hello there,  
Please correct me if I am wrong: I did not find any angle measurement tool.  
Until now I tried to find one on the internet or I drew two tangent lines by hand to obtain numerical parameters and to compute my angle.  
As a basic tool, there may be a reason if it does not actually exist.

Does anyone know a way to measure correctly an angle with Paraview?  
Or does anyone know why this tool is not present?

Thanks for your attention!  
Julien B.

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### Author: ![aron.helser](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/aron.helser/32/13_2.png) [@aron.helser](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aron.helser)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487/2 "2023-07-10T23:23:48Z")

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The Protractor tool, on the Measurement toolbar, is present in the current version of ParaView:  
 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/03c49ee9d6a4a377146f07434626411fa2fce187.png)

but it’s fairly new, so you should try updating ParaView if you don’t have it.

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### Author: ![Julien\_Bomberault](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Julien\_Bomberault](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Julien_Bomberault)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2023, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487/3 "2023-07-11T08:05:07Z")

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Thanks a lot !

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### Author: ![lihaoyun521](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/lihaoyun521/32/12420_2.png) [@lihaoyun521](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/lihaoyun521)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487/4 "2023-09-16T02:29:27Z")

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Dear friends,

I download ParaView-5.11.1-MPI-Windows-Python3.9-msvc2017-AMD64.zip, but I do not find the “Protractor” tool on the Measurement toolbar. So I want to know specifically which version do you download?

Thanks a lot!

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2023, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/angle-measurement-tool/12487/5 "2023-09-18T09:33:12Z")

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It is only in the development version for now. It will be part of the next 5.12 release.

You can try out a nightly build of ParaView: [Download ParaView](https://www.paraview.org/download/?version=nightly)