Hi Michael

Scaling rail is neat, I haven't seen this before in other CAD software.

Yes, the good ol' machine has paintbrush:)

Whish:
view capture (since its effective for communication of ideas, it ought to be always fast to do)

Ok, when you go to File>Export, there you could have PNG file option that saves the current Viewport as a PNG.
It wouldnt lead to any more buttons or anything.

-Fredrik

Hi Fredrik,

> Scaling rail is neat, I haven't seen this before in other CAD software.

Thanks! :) Yes, as far as I know MoI is the only one that has it.


re: view capture by File / Export - that's definitely a good idea, I have added it to the wishlist. A few questions kind of pop up for it though, like for example Export is actually short for "Export selected", which lets you write out only the selected objects to a geometry-based file. But I guess for saving to an image it would not do just selected objects... that would sort of be mixing the meanings up a bit, but maybe that is not a big deal.


In the meantime, here is a script that you can use to save a screenshot out to an image file by using a shortcut key, without needing to run any other program. To set it up go to Options / Shortcut keys, add in a new entry with whatever key you want to trigger it, and add this in as the Command part:

script:var img = moi.view.screenshot( 'viewpanel', false ); var name = img.getSaveFileName(); if ( name != '' ) img.save( name );

- Michael

>Thanks! :) Yes, as far as I know MoI is the only one that has it.

There are couple of small (and big) things in MoI which you dont't find anywhere else. That's a good achivement, its not just different; its different and useful, :)
I'm using moi right now to sketch out some ideas about a bicycle seat, and since it's portable i can do it at my dad's pc.

>re: view capture by File / Export - that's definitely a good idea, I have added it to the wishlist. A few questions kind of pop up for it though, like for example Export is actually short for "Export selected", which >lets you write out only the selected objects to a geometry-based file. But I guess for saving to an image it would not do just selected objects... that would sort of be mixing the meanings up a bit, but maybe >that is not a big deal.

True indeed
You could concider to have a new button in the View Tab too, it would be the most "logical" place I guess. There is just space for one more button there, but you might have reserved this space for something else? ...If you did use a whole new button for Screen Capture though, you might concider to have other associated things like "Print to scale" in its window., (hehe another whish there..)

>In the meantime, here is a script that you can use to save a screenshot out to an image file by using a shortcut key, without needing to run any other program. To set it up go to Options / Shortcut keys, add >in a new entry with whatever key you want to trigger it, and add this in as the Command part:

wow! that's perfect :)

-Good summer!