Hi Michael ...

I remember that it has been mentioned previously so it must be on your list somewhere.

I would like to be able to highlight a line or a curve and know the length, a surface and know the area, or a solid and know the volume.

In your spare time ... ver 4 or 5 maybe? :)

Thanks again for MoI and your constant work to improve it while keeping it simple and intuitive. More and more often I now take a few minutes and model a simple something that has been running around in my head ... as a break from my regular more focused work.

cheers,
eric

Hi Eric,

As for measuring line and curve lengths, this was from a previous posting:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2882.2

You an set up a hotkey for the script. Select the curve or line, hit the hotkeys and then open up something like Word Pad and do a paste. That will give you the curve length.

Michael T.

Thanks Michael T
eric

Hi eric,

> I would like to be able to highlight a line or a curve and know
> the length, a surface and know the area, or a solid and
> know the volume.
>
> In your spare time ... ver 4 or 5 maybe? :)

Yeah, I do want to have this. Hopefully for v3. It can potentially be time consuming to calculate areas and volumes though so it probably won't be something that will get calculated automatically with a single click like the bounding box (or line length or circle radius) that shows up automatically here:



Instead you'll probably need to go to either a larger "object properties" dialog to get it or maybe there will be a dedicated "Volume" command in an "Analysis" palette, I have not quite figured out which of those methods to actually use yet. But kind of leaning towards a dialog where it would be easier to potentially have a lot of information.

- Michael