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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trivial question : dimension are dynamic ?

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

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

Hi Michael ...
Brilliant!
eric

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

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

So much looking forward to using those dimensions.

Great job Michael, please keep up the good work.

Juraj

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

Nice work Micheal!

Thank you!

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.

Hello Michael.

Honestly, a great job with these dimensions!
Congrats.

I don't use it (I don'use Moi for engineering purposes) but I know that many people here are waiting for this feature.

When the next beta will be released with this new feature?

Hi Marco,

> When the next beta will be released with this new feature?

As soon as it's finished up! The remaining work is to set up UI for modifying the various properties, setting up commands for creating them, and seeing if I can get them exporting to DXF/PDF formats.

Hopefully none of these will take too long but it's pretty hard to know in advance exactly how long it will take.

- Michael

Ok Michael.
Got it.
Thanks