Design documentation

 From:  Michael Gibson
1611.9 In reply to 1611.1 
Hi Andras,

> But I would like to ask that do you plan the design documentation
> features in the fture? ie.: hatching (filling); measuring,
> description/documentation, line weighting; printing etc. as
> in other CAD software?

Yes, I do expect to have all this kind of stuff in MoI eventually.

However, it will probably be fairly basic versions of this stuff. Like for example you probably won't have the choice of 10 different arrowhead styles, like you might have in a program that was really focused on technical drafting.


The focus of this stuff in MoI will be more on general annotation and description, just as a way to help you communicate your design to other people in general, not really as a way to produce fully detailed manufacturing documentation.

Some things in this area will probably end up with a kind of more 2D illustration type flavor, like possibly a fill may be more like a fill in Adobe Illustrator rather than a "hatch".... But we'll see.


It will take a while before all this stuff gets added in, I would like to get to some of it in v2, but some things will probably spread out a bit longer than that.


> Are these feature deifficult task?

Yup, it's certainly a lot of work to get them all in. Taken all together that is a lot of features and needs a lot of UI to control it. Anything with a lot of UI development takes a long time to do very well.

- Michael