Hi chaps.


BurrMan.

When I posted, I just wasn't sure if the Round option should've created the shape in this pic.


Martin (2).

Hi Martin,

> When I posted, I just wasn't sure if the Round option should've created the shape in this pic.

Yeah I could see how it would look like it would control that.

But no, that "Corners" option was in there before the "Cap ends" option existed and is for controlling something different than the end cap shape. There isn't any way to control end cap shape other than to turn it on or off.

- Michael

------/ Hi Rich_Art, I definitely want to make the UI more easily customizable in the future. It involves a lot of work though, and currently I've placed a higher priority on other areas of work like bug fixes and new modeling functions.

I expect in the future it will come in some stages, like probably some kind of plug-ins menu where you would be able to see a list of installed plug-ins will probably be first at some point before some kind of more extensive UI customization mechanism.

Those things do not really block you from doing actual modeling though, so things like new modeling functions are just more important to focus on before that though.

The keyboard shortcut mechanism is also pretty primitive, and I'm definitely aware that it will need some attention too, like it should be possible to assign shortcut keys more easily by just pressing the key that you want to assign rather than typing in a label like the current method. Again, that's just a matter of priorities.

- Michael
------/




Thanks Michael,

I understand it fully. Thanks for the heads up.

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Hi all.

Not a beta question really, but is there a way to make the Circle tool default to Diameter mode rather than Radius mode at start-up?


Thanks.
Martin (2).

hi there!

yep..you can edit this in the moi.ini file:






~marco

Wha? I can?

Hey, I was wondering that myself! Thanks Marco!

Hi Marco.

Thanks for the info, that did the trick.
It also seems to toggle the setting for arcs as well.


Cheers.

Martin (2).

Michael.

When I draw a new part (say a circle), there's usually the opportunity to click in the dimension box and use the pop-up calculator to enter the measurement I want, but I've noticed the calculator option isn't there when I later go to edit that circle.

It's just sometimes so hard to drag my hand off the mouse and onto the keypad, I was wondering, why the difference? :)



Martin (2).

Hi Martin,

> It's just sometimes so hard to drag my hand off the mouse and onto the keypad,
> I was wondering, why the difference? :)

Some information on that here: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2598.13

- Michael

A little request, hopefully easy to do> undo inside copy, like when you are drawing a curve and you misplace a point, you can undo and just the last point is removed. Thanks!

ed17.

I think you can do that (in beta v3) by clicking on an item again to deselect it - is that what you mean?


Martin (2).

thanks blowlamp, but i mean that while you are using the copy command and you misplace a copy you cannot press ctrl+z and keep copying.

Hi ed,

> A little request, hopefully easy to do> undo inside copy, like when you are drawing a curve
> and you misplace a point, you can undo and just the last point is removed. Thanks!

I've added this for the next v3 beta. Also you can update your current version to have it by copying the attached Copy.js file over top of the previous version inside the \commands sub-folder.

With that in place, you can then hit undo while you are still inside the copy command and it will remove the last placed copy.

- Michael

Great!! Thanks Michael!

Thanks very much for adding the thin antialiasing option and supporting the line width!

I use MOI3D for user interface design and it was really hard to judge the size of text and knobs and buttons with the cartoon like heavy borders, this will make it much easier for me to preview the size of everything and do screenshot printouts to scribble on and cogitate over.

You're welcome Andrew - I'm glad that it will be useful for you!

- Michael

Hi Michael.

I just came across this anomaly by accident.

Select one curve and apply the Join tool - obviously nothing happens, except the edit frame remains on screen (and selectable), until another item is selected. You can even draw more curves etc., without it clearing.


Martin (2).

Confirmed here too, V2 and 3.

Not that you'd ever preform such a thing on purpose.....great stumble upon Martin :) would prefer to come across something else by accident though...........a genie maybe ;)

Cheers

Hi Danny.

I may have stumbled upon something else too. :)

Hi Michael.

I think I might be getting an unnecessary scroll bar appearing on the right hand side of the screen and it seems to be slightly corrupting the layout there, as well as making things jump about a bit.

An easy way to reproduce the effect is to have a full screen display, but with the Windows task bar showing. Then select a solid, followed by picking the Chamfer tool. When I select Use 2 distances in the Chamfer tool, I get the scroll bar displayed as per the picture and some distortion of the layout.

Clicking on MoI's chevron to give the largest screen size, removes the scroll bar and restores the correct layout for Distance 1: and Distance 2:.

Further toggling of the chevron seems to cause the toolbar area to increase and decrease in width, but doesn't seem to either alter the layout or cause the scroll bar to reappear.



Martin (2).