I've been working on another new piece for the v2 beta - a new "On surface" object snap for drawing directly on surfaces.

At first I was only going to focus on doing this for planar surfaces, but after messing around a bit it seems to be working pretty well for curved surfaces too, here is a small demo:



You can see there that grid snap is also in effect at the same time for the second pick.

Commands that are planar in nature like Circle, Rectangle, Polygon, will use a plane aligned with the surface normal if you are working in the 3D view. If you pick the second point in the Top, Front, or Right views it will align the object with the world axis of that view instead.

Still some things to fix up for it, but it is generally coming along better than I had originally thought it would.

- Michael