Exact length of a rotated edge ?

[lennart]

Hi all,

First, this is my first post. I stumbled upon Wings 3D and i like it so far. As a newbie i was wondering, why isn't there a newbie-section ;-)?

Here's my question
The selected edge in the screenshot has a length of 8.980256. It's positioned 45 degrees on the X/Z-axis. The length should be exactly 9

How can i enter the exact data? When i open 'absolute commands' >> 'scale', i see only the X,Y,Z-related data (e.g. the scale depends on the X,Y and Z-axis.)

A solution is to turn the object 45 degrees back, scale and rotate again. Problem solved. But maybe there's a smarter way.

Is it possible to enter directly the length of an edge, even when it's rotated? In this case it is 45 degrees. It could be also 36, 28 or 360 ;-)