Hi Michael

Well, if I had to choose I would pick always facing me but what would happen in top and side views ? and if the 3d view was rotated ? ... I would also wish for text with leaders. I see that there are some issues ... not really resolved in Rhino, either.

I suspect that for the immediate needs I have I will have to send a rendered drawing into Photoshop or Adobe and then do the labeling.

Thanks for giving it some thought for the future of MoI.

cheers,
eric

Hi Eric,

> Well, if I had to choose I would pick always facing me

I have been kind of hoping to do it that way, it kind of tends to be easier to make text be a 2D label instead of trying to orient it as a 3D object.

But the kind of "classic" AutoCAD style dimensions have the text as kind of stick-line letters and they are oriented in 3D if I remember right.

Then the other question is text size under zooming - is it important for the dimension text to stay fixed in "model units" and change size on the screen when you zoom in or zoom out, or is it ok if they always stay fixed at something like a 12pt font size on the screen?


> but what would happen in top and side views ?

Well, those are actually probably a bit easier since the entire view is naturally facing you directly as well.

But maybe you are referring to something in particular here?


> and if the 3d view was rotated ?

See SketchUp for a demo of what this looks like with "always facing you" text - it basically the center point of the text moves around but it stays the same size...


Is it mainly a linear dimension and text with a leader that would be the 2 main types of things that you would use out of any dimensioning tools? Or is there another kind of dimension that you need a lot as well, like "aligned", "radial", etc...

- Michael

Hi,

I also do a lot of dimensioning those days and I hope to see such tool in Moi.
It would make things much easier, less file exporting/importing.

A 2d flattening tool is also something I would love to see!

Marc

This "text dimension" is only for infos or also for printing?

Hi Marc, do you have any preference on the kind of dimension text style as shown above, between the "always facing you" type method or the "text oriented in 3D" method?

Or do you care more about dimension only in the 2D view rather than in the 3D view?

- Michael

Hi Pilou,

> This text dimension is only for info or also for printing?

I think it is often used for both of those purposes.

But I was thinking of initially focusing more on kind of basic labeling and communication for this in MoI at first, when I get a chance to work on it.

- Michael

Hi Michael, for dimensioning in 3d I prefer the "always facing" method with text size independent of zooming factor.

Marc