Hi Michael and all others.

To work out annotations like in other big cad software can´t be the goal for moi. To much stuff.
The minimum annotations could be length, angle and radius. If you work manually you can build everything with it.
Some people in the forum work with maschines and some have to write little programs for her mill.
I believe that they would be happy to have the distances in the style of coordinates. From a zeropoint in x and y.
With this scheme you could help the most people for the first time. If you plan to have more stuff in the annotations then later
you can build it up. .... or not

This are only my thougths about < annotations in moi>.
Hope it helps a little bit.

Cheers

Hans

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you have Viacad Pro V8 for 99 $ for that and more till 17 december! ;)
http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6367.1

I personally would be happy if MoI would concentrate on it's core strengths - great 3D modelling, easy to use, light on the eye, uncluttered.

For me, every improvement in the Fillets area would be the most welcome addition together with more deformations.
Not only variable width Fillets, but also better handling of cases where edges run down to zero width or where fillets come in contact with not only one patch but overlap or touch a second geometric feature.
Of course that is only my personal needs and YMMV.
I just wanted to state it anyway ;-)

For the other stuff I just bought ViaCAD Pro last night.

Cheers,

Tom

"... For me, every improvement in the Fillets area would be the most welcome addition. "

I agree. For me, the operation that fails the most is Fillets. I know why they are failing and it's generally when I have a tapered situation or sharp angles.

Having new advanced features does no good if one can't get the basic modeling accomplished.

Not to be taken as a criticism, just an input - I enjoy using MoI.

Ed

agree with you Ed ;)