Hi all.

Not a beta question really, but is there a way to make the Circle tool default to Diameter mode rather than Radius mode at start-up?


Thanks.
Martin (2).

hi there!

yep..you can edit this in the moi.ini file:






~marco

Wha? I can?

Hey, I was wondering that myself! Thanks Marco!

Hi Marco.

Thanks for the info, that did the trick.
It also seems to toggle the setting for arcs as well.


Cheers.

Martin (2).

Michael.

When I draw a new part (say a circle), there's usually the opportunity to click in the dimension box and use the pop-up calculator to enter the measurement I want, but I've noticed the calculator option isn't there when I later go to edit that circle.

It's just sometimes so hard to drag my hand off the mouse and onto the keypad, I was wondering, why the difference? :)



Martin (2).

Hi Martin,

> It's just sometimes so hard to drag my hand off the mouse and onto the keypad,
> I was wondering, why the difference? :)

Some information on that here: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2598.13

- Michael

A little request, hopefully easy to do> undo inside copy, like when you are drawing a curve and you misplace a point, you can undo and just the last point is removed. Thanks!

ed17.

I think you can do that (in beta v3) by clicking on an item again to deselect it - is that what you mean?


Martin (2).

thanks blowlamp, but i mean that while you are using the copy command and you misplace a copy you cannot press ctrl+z and keep copying.

Hi ed,

> A little request, hopefully easy to do> undo inside copy, like when you are drawing a curve
> and you misplace a point, you can undo and just the last point is removed. Thanks!

I've added this for the next v3 beta. Also you can update your current version to have it by copying the attached Copy.js file over top of the previous version inside the \commands sub-folder.

With that in place, you can then hit undo while you are still inside the copy command and it will remove the last placed copy.

- Michael

Great!! Thanks Michael!

Thanks very much for adding the thin antialiasing option and supporting the line width!

I use MOI3D for user interface design and it was really hard to judge the size of text and knobs and buttons with the cartoon like heavy borders, this will make it much easier for me to preview the size of everything and do screenshot printouts to scribble on and cogitate over.

You're welcome Andrew - I'm glad that it will be useful for you!

- Michael

Hi Michael.

I just came across this anomaly by accident.

Select one curve and apply the Join tool - obviously nothing happens, except the edit frame remains on screen (and selectable), until another item is selected. You can even draw more curves etc., without it clearing.


Martin (2).

Confirmed here too, V2 and 3.

Not that you'd ever preform such a thing on purpose.....great stumble upon Martin :) would prefer to come across something else by accident though...........a genie maybe ;)

Cheers

Hi Danny.

I may have stumbled upon something else too. :)

Hi Michael.

I think I might be getting an unnecessary scroll bar appearing on the right hand side of the screen and it seems to be slightly corrupting the layout there, as well as making things jump about a bit.

An easy way to reproduce the effect is to have a full screen display, but with the Windows task bar showing. Then select a solid, followed by picking the Chamfer tool. When I select Use 2 distances in the Chamfer tool, I get the scroll bar displayed as per the picture and some distortion of the layout.

Clicking on MoI's chevron to give the largest screen size, removes the scroll bar and restores the correct layout for Distance 1: and Distance 2:.

Further toggling of the chevron seems to cause the toolbar area to increase and decrease in width, but doesn't seem to either alter the layout or cause the scroll bar to reappear.



Martin (2).

Hi Martin,

> Select one curve and apply the Join tool - obviously nothing happens, except the edit frame
> remains on screen (and selectable), until another item is selected. You can even draw more
> curves etc., without it clearing.

Thanks for reporting this bug - I've got it fixed up now and the fix will be in the next v3 beta release.

- Michael

Hi Martin,

> I think I might be getting an unnecessary scroll bar appearing on the right hand side
> of the screen and it seems to be slightly corrupting the layout there, as well as making
> things jump about a bit.

I think this is due to some unwanted word wrapping happening, it's difficult for me to reproduce over here since it's dependent on your particular font, font size and screen size.

Can you please try using the attached update to the chamfer command and see if it behaves any better with that in place? Just copy the attached Chamfer.htm file over the previous version inside of the \commands sub-folder inside of MoI's main installation folder.

- Michael

Michael.

I think you've cracked it with that - it works perfectly in Chamfer now and is much, much nicer on the eye!

In between times, I've found that the Array tools are acting in exactly the same way and give a pronounced judder to the screen as I switch between each array tool. The right hand side of the screen sort of shuffles about as it updates itself to make way for the scroll bar and the Curve (array) tool moves down a line too - I'm pretty sure this was a significant part of the effect I was experiencing when I asked you about changes to the toolbar area a little while ago.

Could you do a similar fix here by any chance please?

Thanks very much for sorting this out!


Martin (2).