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Hi Michel,

re:
> When zooming in, would the pointless arrow become flatter or, since it's vector based,
> still show a very small flat end ?

In MoI it will look the same shape and size at any zoom level. It's a general focus area for annotations in MoI for them to have a scale independent display. But I may try shrinking them down if you are zoomed out a lot.

- Michael

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Hi Michael,

Ok. Nice. Thanks.

Sorry, another demand jumping in while you're into text labels : Will it be possible to add a prefix and/or a suffix to dimensions ?
Example : add a diameter symbol or R for radius before the dimension text?

Michel

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Hi Michel,

re:
> Sorry, another demand jumping in while you're into text labels : Will it be possible to add a prefix
> and/or a suffix to dimensions ?
> Example : add a diameter symbol or R for radius before the dimension text?

Yes I think so. Probably a radial dimension will do that by default.

- Michael

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Dimensions...... Ooooooohhhh this looks so great! Realy hope you could finish this one soon.

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Yup dimensions are coming along quite well, not much longer before they will be functional.

Here's what they look like at this moment.

These first 2 are with the option for dimension-aligned text:

Plan view:



3D view:




And this is with the option for screen-aligned text:

Plan view:



3D view:





At the moment I'm working on a few options for arrowhead shapes, then some of the last remaining steps are some UI for controlling the options, then making the commands for creating them, then export to PDF/AI and DXF formats.


- Michael

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Distance between dimension & text is parametrable or we can put a text space (s) ?

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Hi Pilou, I don't have it set up yet but yes I want to make it possible to be able to put in spaces if you wanted a larger gap there.

- Michael

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Looks great! Be so nice to have dimensions in Moi3d integrated.

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Just a thought:
If a drawing, say in Top View, is rotated 180 degrees about an axis, will the dimensions be readable, or will they be upside down, or right to left?

- Brian

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Hi Brian, dimension text will automatically reorient so you won't see them reversed when viewed from "underneath" and also switch to be in left-to-right order, except text blocks don't do the left-to-right switch.

Here's a demo, also today I added in text box padding and an optional text box outline. At this moment everything has an outline turned on for testing that.



- Michael

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Trivial question : dimension are dynamic ?

When I incease / decrease a volume(s) dimensionned, does they are updated ?

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Hi Pilou, yes if you do something like scale them the text will update. There will be an option to override that with your own fixed text value if you want though.

- Michael

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Hi Michael ...
Brilliant!
eric

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This dimensioning will be tremendously useful.

Right now I'm awkwardly using the current Text entry for labeling geometry.

It seems that current Text entry requires quite a bit of memory.
What sort of memory load will the new dimensioning require?

- Brian

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Hi Brian, the new dimensions use only a tiny amount of memory. Text is stored just as a text string value not as a bunch of curve and surface geometry. It will definitely be a far better method for labels.

- Michael

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So much looking forward to using those dimensions.

Great job Michael, please keep up the good work.

Juraj

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I think I'll also do an option for a bracket type textbox outline like this:



I really wanted to do a circle too but it will take too much work for now.

- Michael

Image Attachments:
bracket_outline.jpg 

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Image Attachments:
bracket_and_dot.png 

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Nice work Micheal!

Thank you!

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Hi Michael - a nice addition to the notes - good to give each cad program its own visual identity when creating notes and this one certainly gives that to MoI.

Looking forward to final release on v4.

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