V4 beta Oct-10-2019 available now

 From:  Michael Gibson
9526.183 In reply to 9526.182 
Hi Alex,

re:
> Probably been asked before but with the DIMS module will this have a global text size adjustable
> to the open document. So if your working on large items the dims are relevant to the scale
> working in that document.

The current initial method is that the text is scale independent and stays the same size on screen no matter what the size of your model. So the current dims already solve that problem, they don't need any adjustment depending on whether you are working with large sized models or small sized models.

That's basically why the initial focus is on having scale independent text that is always the same screen size, then you don't have to worry about these kinds of scale issues that you are describing here.

I do plan on having a setting for model scale dependent text as well, I'm not quite sure yet on the specifics of how that will work.


> Also when working with other file formats and opening or importing into a new doc is it possible for the
> MOI to default file name that is came from this action is standard in RHINO and Solidworks to name a few.

MoI does not do this because .3dm format is the only format that can contain everything that you can create in MoI including stuff like background images for example. So the current file name is only set if you open .3dm format, that way there isn't any chance for there to be data loss if you have created things that do not save to .DXF format for example.

There is a setting in moi.ini that you can set to modify some of this behavior, that's under:
[Settings]
<...>
SetNameWhenOpeningAllFileTypes=y

When set, the current file name is set for all file opens not just .3dm files.

- Michael