diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch.rs
index b054b667..4e383532 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch.rs
@@ -1443,6 +1443,8 @@ fn dimension(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
         place_text(sk, &id, text_at);
         Ok((pname, name, cur))
     })?;
+    // Report what the dimension measures once the sketch is solved, not the geometry before.
+    let current = solved_measure(s, p, cmd).unwrap_or(current);
     if driven {
         return Ok(json!({"param": Value::Null, "driven": true, "type": kind_name, "measured": current, "sketch": info}));
     }
@@ -1453,6 +1455,12 @@ fn dimension(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     Ok(json!({"param": param, "type": kind_name, "expression": v, "measured": current, "sketch": info}))
 }
 
+/// What the dimension just added (the sketch's last constraint) measures on the solved sketch.
+fn solved_measure(s: &Session, p: &Value, cmd: &str) -> Option<f64> {
+    let sk = s.doc.sketch(target_sketch(s, p, cmd).ok()?).ok()?;
+    solvecraft_sketch::measure_dimension(sk, &sk.constraints.last()?.kind)
+}
+
 /// Keep a dimension's text where it was placed (`at`, sketch coordinates), relative to the
 /// dimension so it follows the geometry.
 fn place_text(sk: &mut Sketch, id: &str, at: Option<Vec2>) {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch_constraints_tests.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch_constraints_tests.rs
index 0c5edd7e..fe07607d 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch_constraints_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/sketch_constraints_tests.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,26 @@ fn redundant_constraints_and_dimensions_are_refused_driven_ones_measure() {
     assert_eq!(g["fully_constrained"], true);
 }
 
+/// `measured` is the dimension on the solved sketch: a trough drawn 99.84 long and dimensioned
+/// 100 reports 100, not the length it had before solving.
+#[test]
+fn a_dimension_reports_the_solved_value() {
+    let mut s = new_sketch();
+    run(&mut s, "sketch.rectangle.two_point", json!({"p0": [0, 0], "p1": [99.84, 40.2]}));
+    run(&mut s, "sketch.constraint.coincident", json!({"a": "p1", "b": "origin"}));
+    let d = run(&mut s, "sketch.dimension", json!({"entities": ["l1"], "value": 100}));
+    assert!((d["measured"].as_f64().unwrap() - 100.0).abs() < 1e-6, "{d}");
+    let d = run(&mut s, "sketch.dimension", json!({"entities": ["l2"], "value": "40 mm"}));
+    assert!((d["measured"].as_f64().unwrap() - 40.0).abs() < 1e-6, "{d}");
+    // A driven dimension measures the solved geometry too.
+    let d = run(&mut s, "sketch.dimension", json!({"entities": ["p1", "p3"], "driven": true}));
+    assert!((d["measured"].as_f64().unwrap() - 100.0_f64.hypot(40.0)).abs() < 1e-6, "{d}");
+    let c = run(&mut s, "sketch.circle.center", json!({"center": [50, 20], "radius": 7.3}));
+    let c = ids(&c["curves"])[0].clone();
+    let d = run(&mut s, "sketch.dimension", json!({"entities": [c], "value": 15}));
+    assert!((d["measured"].as_f64().unwrap() - 15.0).abs() < 1e-6, "{d}");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn curvature_polygon_arc_length_linear_diameter() {
     let mut s = new_sketch();
diff --git a/crates/sketch/src/lib.rs b/crates/sketch/src/lib.rs
index 7e507456..2b4cc1d3 100644
--- a/crates/sketch/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/sketch/src/lib.rs
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pub use link::{Link, LinkGeom, LinkKind, LinkSource, MAX_LINK_ENTITIES};
 pub use model::{Constraint, ConstraintKind, Curve, CurveKind, SPoint, Sketch, SketchError, SketchView};
 pub use profiles::{Profile, find_drawn_profiles, find_profiles, merge_regions};
 pub use shape::{Shape, intersections};
-pub use solver::{Hold, SolveReport, SolveStatus, solve, solve_holding};
+pub use solver::{Hold, SolveReport, SolveStatus, measure_dimension, solve, solve_holding};
 pub use text::{MAX_TEXT_CHARS, text_geometry};
 pub use wire::{MAX_FIT_POINTS, MAX_WIRE_POINTS, Wire, fit_polyline};
 
diff --git a/crates/sketch/src/solver.rs b/crates/sketch/src/solver.rs
index 11b5f578..c703e2e6 100644
--- a/crates/sketch/src/solver.rs
+++ b/crates/sketch/src/solver.rs
@@ -456,6 +456,13 @@ fn measure(s: &State, k: &ConstraintKind) -> Option<f64> {
     })
 }
 
+/// What a dimension measures on the sketch as it stands (mm, radians for angles); `None` for a
+/// constraint that is not a dimension.
+pub fn measure_dimension(sk: &Sketch, k: &ConstraintKind) -> Option<f64> {
+    let lay = Layout { pvar: vec![None; sk.points.len()], rvar: vec![None; sk.curves.len()], n: 0 };
+    measure(&State { sk, lay: &lay, x: &[] }, k).filter(|v| v.is_finite())
+}
+
 /// One residual block: implicit arc radius equality, a user constraint, or a tangency at a known
 /// touch point (better conditioned than the distance form when an end point is on the curve).
 enum Block<'a> {