Hi Peer,

re:
> Regarding the "shape analysis" option, are you saying this is something I could do by writing a script? Sounds pretty tricky.

I'm saying it's something I could do to the projected curves in the drawing generation.

It's possible to do it in a script, it's fundamentally just evaluating a bunch of points along the curve and see if they are close enough to a circle. But it can be tricky to do it well.

I'll give it a try as a part of drawing generation.

- Michael

Here is dimension drawing in MOI and yes the outer radius I achieve by tracing 3pt curve in position over the render.

Thanks for the example AlexPolo.

- Peer

Hi everyone,

You could imagine making automated printouts like this with a few dedicated tools. In this case, I did it for fun, in a very home-made way.
I'd have liked to use coordinate dimensioning, but with my custom UI it doesn't work.



See link below
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=11109.1

Note: I made this drawing from a drawing and a piece to create offered by TITANS from CNC: Academy Site.
In the end, MoI3D (for both the part and the drawing) worked quite well. As for me, I do it for fun, for the pleasure of 3D and to make my neurons work!

Hi Zooen,

Nice drawing :)

Re:
> I'd have liked to use coordinate dimensioning, but with my custom UI it doesn't work.

Do you mean this plugin?

http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=11115.1

I can imagine that adding the icon might not work, but if you set up a shortcut key for "Ordinate" does that work?

- Peer

Hi Peer,
>Do you mean this plugin?
Yes

>I can imagine that adding the icon might not work, but if you set up a shortcut key for "Ordinate" does that work?
I did this and it works. Thanks

I noticed that it is therefore necessary, to carry out the dimensioning, to move the supposed (chosen) origin of the coordinates of the element that we want to dimension (the local 0.0) to the origin of the world (the 0.0 overall).
In the example case of my plan above, I have 3 local origins. So, 2 movements of all the elements (entities) created.

Hi Zooen,

Glad to hear you got the plugin working.

It sounds like you're moving the view of the part to the world origin adding the dimensions, and then moving the dimensions and the part away from the origin. I hadn't thought of doing it that way.

I set up local coordinates using the CPlane tool which lets me snap the coordinate system onto the part.

http://moi3d.com/4.0/docs/moi_command_reference5.htm#CPlane

For each view I have to set the local origin again. One problem with this approach is that there's a bug in my code and with some orientations of the local coordinates I get an error message, so maybe your method is better until I get a chance to fix that.

- Peer