Hi DesuDeus,

> I like the Rect from center tool, its very cool but it lack something.
> You should have two snap points, the corner + the edge close to it.
> For example draw a circle that's not align on any grid, then try to
> draw the bounding box... yeah its impossible !
> You can do it with a mix of tools (lines) of course but its not very fast.

As Pilou and Paul mentioned, it is actually not impossible at all! Just use construction lines to get your circle framed, it only takes a couple of seconds.

Maybe it is not clear that a Construction line is actually a special helper object in MoI and not the same as just drawing in additional regular line objects that you then have to erase.

Construction lines are special helpers that you can create any time you are drawing, by holding down the mouse and dragging on a point instead of clicking on the point.

So for example in your case you describe here about drawing a box around a circle not grid aligned, that looks like this:



So as you can see there, definitely not impossible! :)

And that can be done quickly too, just a couple of seconds as you can see.

Note that you do not have to exit the command to create construction lines - when I'm talking about "construction lines" I don't mean drawing additional regular line objects in the scene, I mean using the special quick construction line helper tool that you can do by dragging instead of clicking on points.

- Michael

Hi DesuDeus, from some of your other comments it sounds like you want a general tool to frame any selection of objects.

Something like that would be a more specialized "BoundingBox" command and would not be part of the drawing tools.

For a bounding box command you would not pick any points at all, you would just select objects, run "BoundingBox" and have it generate the frame - that kind of "generation from selected objects" is a lot different than a drawing tool.

Probably for the next beta release I can make a plugin for you that will do that kind of frame creation.

- Michael

Look at my answer in the "line from center point" request, your answer about c-lines helped me.

Okey cool, but in your example you have a circle, you can use the quad of the circle to help you.
Show me with the "S" letter that Pilou showed, how do you do it fast?
A bounding box command would be perfect yes :) Even better if it works in 3d too :D
And also if it works with multiples objects, just like the scale/rotate gizmo that show up when you select objects.

Thanks again for the explanations.

Hi DesuDeus,

> Okey cool, but in your example you have a circle, you can
> use the quad of the circle to help you.

Yes, but the reason that I had a circle there because your initial question in this thread was about a circle :)

You wrote:


> Show me with the "S" letter that Pilou showed, how do you do it fast?

You wouldn't really want to try and draw a rectangle manually around something like that with the Rect from center tool, you would want to have a command generate that for you.


> A bounding box command would be perfect yes :) Even better if it works
> in 3d too :D And also if it works with multiples objects, just like the
> scale/rotate gizmo that show up when you select objects.

Yes, it would be basically like making that scale/rotate edit frame but as an rectangle curve object if you had all planar shapes, or as a box if you had 3D objects.

I'll see about cooking up a special command for that for the next beta.

- Michael

I should buy you cookies and ship them at you ;)
Thanks for all !