I'm not sure this was discussed, but in Version 2, something that may be useful is a Constant View of a ruler in the upcoming Moi GUI that displays measurements similar to other views.

Here is some reasoning behind this. I have made many things in Moi (having a terribly fun time with my learning curve). However, I never quite know the sizes of things I make -all guesswork after initial creation of solids (see image: "03_Ruler View_Moi_has"). I have been creating .stl files then putting viewing them in
with a Myriad viewer that shows some measurements but had to manually tell the program what edges to measure (see image: "02_Myriad_Reader_Ruler"). This gives me measurements, however, this is not only slow but also unpractical for attempting to get correct sizes the first time.

Perhaps the Moi version could display a standard measure set such as "width and height" per objects selected (see "01_Ruler View_v02m"). This could certainly be calculated per objects selected with formula based upon distance from XYZ axis compared to dimensions of the objects proper. Perhaps, Moi already does this when creating new forms.

I did a search of forum topics from past for ruler terms. I think you had a recent thread that gave some sort of application that gives measurements, but I did not know how to use this/add to Moi application. Please forgive me if this has been discussed before.

Thanks,

Brent

Inches! Inches!???

What a shame---still!

Brian

Hi Brent, stuff for that will definitely be coming for MoI.

The ruler type stuff will just be called "Dimensions" in MoI, there will likely be a whole special Dim palette/tab for these in the side bar because there will be a few different types like ones for radius and angle in addition to distance.

I don't yet know an exact schedule for when those will happen.


> Perhaps the Moi version could display a standard measure set such as
> "width and height" per objects selected

Yup, I want to make that happen as well - the idea is that there will be a kind of properties panel that will show up when you select objects, to allow you to edit stuff like colors, etc... Also on that same panel I would like to make it possible to see the size of the object's bounding box and also allow you to scale the object by entering new values in there.

This selected-object-info part will likely happen sooner than the Dimensions part.

- Michael

Thanks Michael. That sounds very cool. Looking forward to the next Moi version.

-Brent

Brian, What? Excuse me. Are you referring to the Standard vs. Metric Debate? Or am I missing something?

-Brent

Brent
Just a joke/dig/sigh?

2008 and the world is still not universally metric. I was raised on Imperial and we changed to metric in 1964.
Sigh! again!(That shed full of spanners and bolts and nuts in a variety of formats!)
(Though it's still ok to think of peoples height in feet and inches (metric height, after all these years still does not mentally envision--- with me!)
Brian

Brian,

Yeah, that's what I thought. Funny actually. Poor me. I like metric, tons, but grew up with standard and can't seem to shake it.

Brent