I have an other request for layer editing, sometimes I get long list in the layer windows, and often I need to re-organize them and deleting the empty layers, but the layer's windows manager show the name of empty layer with the same color and is impossible figure out the empty such as possible in the Layer UI, where empty are highlighted with grey color in the label.
If is possible having a correspondence of UI in the color even in the editing of layer windows, this make more easy to remove empty layers.

Don't mind Obj exporter doesn't support yet the edge exporting, for now the only way is the use of DXF and the command _PolyCurveToCurveBeta.
Below a basic 3 point curve converted into curve.

Hi Michael,

I wonder if it would be possible for a script to invoke Leader with an initial point for the arrow location as well as the text to be placed? Maybe even a List of all the points for the leader?

--Larry

Hi Larry,

re:
> I wonder if it would be possible for a script to invoke Leader with an initial point for
> the arrow location as well as the text to be placed? Maybe even a List of all the
> points for the leader?

Yes, it's possible to generate a leader from a set of points in script code. Here's an example:

var factory = moi.command.createFactory( 'leader' );
factory.setInput( 0, moi.vectorMath.createTopFrame() );
factory.setInput( 1, 'Leader' ); 
factory.setInput( 2, 0 );

factory.createInput( 'point' );
factory.createInput( 'point' );
factory.createInput( 'point' );
factory.setInput( 3, moi.vectorMath.createPoint(5,0,0) );
factory.setInput( 4, moi.vectorMath.createPoint(5,10,0) );
factory.setInput( 5, moi.vectorMath.createPoint(15,15,0) );
factory.commit();

If you copy that and then in MoI push Tab, paste and enter it should generate this result:



The factory inputs for leader go like this:

Leader input 0 - base frame for plane and first point.
Leader input 1 - text
Leader input 2 - property preset index
Followed by 1 or more dynamically created point inputs

- Michael

Hi pafurijaz,

re:
> If is possible having a correspondence of UI in the color even in the editing of
> layer windows, this make more easy to remove empty layers.

Yes, that's a good idea for the "Edit styles" dialog to use the same text color signal as the scene browser for whether it's empty or not. I've added it for the next beta.

Thanks,
- Michael

Hi Michael,

Many thanks for your thorough answer and example!

--Larry

There's a command for deleting empty layers?

I believe this ;)

script:/*Purge Styles*/var gd = moi.geometryDatabase; var styles = gd.getObjectStyles(); var counts = new Array(styles.length); for ( var i = 0; i < counts.length; ++i ) { counts[i] = 0; } var objs = gd.getObjects(); for ( var i = 0; i < objs.length; ++i ) { var obj = objs.item(i); if ( obj.styleIndex < counts.length ) ++counts[obj.styleIndex]; var subobjs = obj.getSubObjects(); for ( var j = 0; j < subobjs.length; ++j ) { var subobj = subobjs.item(j); if ( subobj.styleIndex < counts.length ) ++counts[subobj.styleIndex]; } } for ( var i = 0; i < styles.length; ++i ) { if ( counts[i] == 0 ) styles.item(i).remove(); }

Great and thanks is a bit long but it's works well when I pasted in command field.

Hi pafurijaz, you can also set it on a shortcut key if that is more convenient.

- Michael

Yeah I will do :)

Hello, Michael,
would it be possible to add a column in the options/keyboard shortcuts for the description of the shortcuts for information purposes?
-moritz

Normally you have a speed description in the Script itself
script: /* Show objects, or isolate */ var objs = moi.geometryDatabase.getObjects(); var any_hidden = false; for ( var i = 0; i < objs.length && !any_hidden; ++i ) { any_hidden = objs.item(i).hidden; } if ( any_hidden ) { objs.setProperty( 'hidden', false ); } else { for ( var i = 0; i < objs.length; ++i ) { var obj = objs.item(i); if ( !obj.selected ) obj.hidden = true; } }

If it's a direct function you can write
rebuild /*for rebuild a curve*/

Hi moritz,

re:
> Hello, Michael,
> would it be possible to add a column in the options/keyboard shortcuts for the description of the shortcuts for information purposes?

The ones that are just command names are pretty self descriptive, like "Delete", "New", "Open", "Save", etc... Do you really need more information on those ones?

For the ones that have script code, you can put in a description as a /* comment */ like you have on these:


What I would like to do eventually is to have just the shortcut key and a description there and not anything else, that needs another mechanism like a "script library" set up first though where there can be some kind of list of scripts in different categories with descriptions along with them.

- Michael

... For the ones that have script code, you can put in a description as a /* comment */ like you have on these ...

Hi French Pilou, hi Michael, I was not aware of this possibility - thank you very much
-moritz

PS you can call a function by of course a ShortCut but also
by Press TAB then write Rebuild or REbuild REBUILD or RebuilD or rebuild etc...but without espace :)

Hi Michael,

May have already been mentioned (apologies if so the thread is quite lengthy now) but I'm getting aliasing issues when I add a dimension...(Windows 10, NVidia 1080TI)

Hi Rich, that's a type of display artifact called "stippling" which can happen in various circumstances.

When MoI draws curves, it pulls them forward towards the eye point slightly so that they will draw on top surfaces that the curves are on.

It's difficult for the display engine to determine a perfect amount of "pull" without doing a lot of calculations that would slow down the display and if it isn't quite enough you will get that kind of display problem. When it pulls too much then it can get "bleed through" instead.

I have some ideas on how to improve that in the future but for now it's just something to ignore.

- Michael

It probably happens in your case here because the dimension goes on the construction plane and maybe your object is some distance away from there?

When the bounding box size of the entire scene changes that tends to have an effect on the z-pull factor.

- Michael

Ahhhh yes the bounding box does sound like a good explanation! All good just figured it may have been something to bring up!

- Rich