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

Hi Michael,

I am working with curves and noticed there is no starting arc angle definition.

There is the "crv.conicEndAngleRadians". Is there a possibility of adding a "crv.conicStartAngleRadians" definition?

The start point angle radians can be calculated from the other definitions, but it would be simpler to use just one.

Thank you,

Wayne

Hi Wayne, it should be orienting the frame of the arc so that the x-axis is pointing at the start of the arc so the start angle is always zero.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I am not familiar orienting the frame. Something for me to research today. What lead me to ask was while working with partial arcs in quadrants not starting at zero angle.

Thank you,

Wayne

Hi Wayne, the frame is the plane that the arc is in. The plane has an xaxis and yaxis like this:




The arc starts on the frame's xaxis at an angle of 0, and travels counter-clockwise and ends at the end angle:



- Michael

Thank you for the information.
Wayne