Hi,

It would be great if it would be possible to introduce a tolerance when joining objects, for example if two endpoints does not meet by '.003' they would be automatically joined.

And also an option to bring all the objects at the same "z" level. For example if the shapes all correspond in top view but are misaligned in 'z' the wrong one could be leveled with the others (see screenshot).


Marc

The align tool works good for this. Turn on points and select "Verticle align" and place it where you want.

Hi Marc,

> It would be great if it would be possible to introduce a
> tolerance when joining objects, for example if two endpoints
> does not meet by '.003' they would be automatically joined.

There is actually a tolerance already being used, currently curve joining uses a tolerance of 0.001 units.

I suppose I should tune this up so that it works the same as surface edge-to-edge joining which will go up to 0.005 units.


> And also an option to bring all the objects at the same "z" level.
> For example if the shapes all correspond in top view but are
> misaligned in 'z' the wrong one could be leveled with the others
> (see screenshot).

Like Burr mentioned, the "Align" tool is a good one for that kind of leveling.

Also with v2 the edit frame has a "Flat" snap that can can be used for this kind of a purpose as well which can be pretty handy.

Before you drag on the frame's scaling grip you'll probably want to click it first to switch the scaling origin from scale-from-center mode to scale-from-corner mode. Every time you click the grip (click and release rather than holding down and dragging), it will switch between those 2 scale origin modes and you will see the little origin marker change each time.

So you just set it to "scale by corner", and then drag one of the top corners down until you get "flat", like this:



- Michael

Beauty of simplicity!
Maybe a little recall gif animations of all the possibility of the bounding box grouped in a same page will be useful ?

Thanks for the tip Burr!

Thanks Michael, i didn't know you could use the handles that way.

Maybe a numerical input or a slider for the tolerance would be useful for times when you want a quick sketch and don't need space mission accuracy.
But then again it may be a hard thing to implement.

Marc

Hi Pilou,

> Maybe a little recall gif animations of all the possibility of
> the bounding box grouped in a same page will be useful ?

Sure, if you'd like please feel free to make a new post with them all collected in it!

- Michael

Hi Marc,

> Maybe a numerical input or a slider for the tolerance would
> be useful for times when you want a quick sketch and don't
> need space mission accuracy.
> But then again it may be a hard thing to implement.

Yeah I've thought some about that before.

But it tends to be a problematic area - it can be really easy to "shoot yourself in the foot" if you set the tolerance to be really loose or something and then forget to tighten it later.

All kinds of strange things will happen with a loose tolerance - things joining that should be separate, saggy intersection curves between surfaces, a bunch of stuff like that.

Also on top of that I'm trying to move more things over to a system where the tolerance can adapt itself to be a fraction of the overall size of the objects involved, rather than fixed at just one static value. That helps things work better when objects are at a large scale in unit sizes.

- Michael

Hi Michael, thanks for the clarification, it makes much sense!