Hi Kevin,

> The edge on views become useful reference when you extrude
> the object you have drawn on the cplane.

Yeah they can be useful for viewing results, but you won't be able to draw things with the mouse in them when they are looking edge-on at their grid.

What if I switched those views that would get an edge-on grid to have their regular default planes instead of the edge-on one? Would that cause any problems for the kind of use that you are talking about?

- Michael

>What if I switched those views that would get an edge-on grid to have their
>regular default planes instead of the edge-on one?
>Would that cause any problems for the kind of use that you are talking about?

Nah, that would be alright.

The main requirement I'm talking about is the ability to draw on the cplane without affecting the orientation of the blueprints underneath.

Hi Kevin, I'll see if I can set that up...

Does another checkbox that says: "Orient ortho views" make sense?

It would show up if "Apply to all views" was checked. Default will be for it to be checked which would give the same as current behavior (where the ortho views move to be looking relative to the new cplane) - if you uncheck it then the ortho views would stay oriented in world to get the type of thing that you want here.

- Michael

Hi Michael,


Could you add a "Project to Cplane" option?. The views could be to user Cplane, but curves drawn in the ortho views projected to the relative world planes.



- Steve

Michael

>Does another checkbox that says: "Orient ortho views" make sense?

Yep, I think users will understand this.

Manz
>The views could be to user Cplane, but curves drawn in the ortho views projected to the relative world planes.
Thats how it currently works ?

Hi Steve - sorry I'm not following that, could you describe it a bit more?

Maybe what you are talking about would be if the 2 checkboxes were always visible (instead of the second one disappearing when you unchecked the first one), and you disabled "Apply to all views" (so the grids in ortho views stayed as their default world planes), but enabled "Orient ortho views" so that the view directions do shift to be relative to the custom cplane?

If you could describe a bit about the scenario where that would help out, that might help me understand it better.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I was thinking of the "ProjectOsnap" in Rhino, but a little more simplified. As example. A drawing can be set up on a custom Cplane with "apply to all views", with an option to "project", then, rather than the curves being drawn on the user Cplane, they are projected to the world plane.


- Steve

Hi Steve,

> then, rather than the curves being drawn on the user
> Cplane, they are projected to the world plane.

I'm not sure which world plane they would project on to?

A user cplane is not restricted to be similar to the original world plane - they can easily be flipped around in some totally different direction. For example it would be possible for a relocated "Top" view to be looking down right at the edge of the normal "World Top" plane.

So it's not really clear to me how that would work...


The other part is that you seem to be talking about curves being projected - would that mean that a circle that was being drawn would instead project to an ellipse as the end result? If so then that is not something that can easily be set up by just changing how points are picked, the circle command for example only currently knows how to construct a circle, not an ellipse. So that would probably require changes to every command, making it a rather difficult amount of work I'm afraid.

- Michael

Steve

Couldn't you place a rectangular surface or similar object on the world plane as a temporary object. Draw you objects/curves on the cplane and then use the project curve tool ?