Thanks Michael.

I didn't know that about the Zoom Area tool. However, that is too cumbersome for frequent use. I've taken a peak at the scripting documentation and come up with a rough solution (posted in a different thread).

There are ten items on my list:

1 - Dimensioning
2 - Dimensioning
3 - Dimensioning
4...

You get the idea.

You cannot communicate your designs without dimensioning.

Luckily, MOI provides good Sketchup support.

11 - a guide / measurement system more like that found in... you guessed it... Sketchup.

BTW, I don't particularly like modeling or navigation in Sketchup.

12 - Material support (ability to "map" image files to surfaces), also important for the communication thing.

Don't know if this idea was already suggested, but it would be really great to be able to save the 3dm file with an optional preview icon that would make the content visible in file explorer without having to load it.

Also, as a reminder, we had talked about a verification upon save... for example, provide an error in case the drive mapping fails.

This is the best software I have ever known. I love MoI.

Hi Mindset,

> Don't know if this idea was already suggested, but it would be really great to be able to save
> the 3dm file with an optional preview icon that would make the content visible in file explorer
> without having to load it.

I would like to have this, but it's more involved than just saving the preview icon in the file - I would also need to write a plug-in for Explorer that handles extracting the icon and getting it to Explorer when it asks for it, Explorer all by itself doesn't know how to grab the icon out of arbitrary file types. Then also I'd need to write a similar plug-in for Mac as well.

It's certainly possible to do all that, it's just a fair amount more work than only putting in an icon in the file.


> Also, as a reminder, we had talked about a verification upon save... for example, provide an
> error in case the drive mapping fails.

Yes having error messages for more kinds of failure conditions for file writing is still on the todo list.

- Michael

Hello Michael,

>Try using the "Zoom area" button on the viewport bottom toolbar for this - the first point that you pick for the area to zoom in on will become the center of the new view, make the zoom rectangle fairly >large to make for not much change in zoom in/out level.

is it possible to set the rotation-centerpoint by a simple click with the middle mouse button? I know this feature from Catia V5 and it's very Handy - no menu clicks-no Icons-no additional Keyboard-keys. The view gets also centered to the new centerpoint.

Kind regards
Karsten

Hi Karsten,

re:
> is it possible to set the rotation-centerpoint by a simple click with the middle mouse button?

Sorry no it is not possible to do that currently - right now there is not any way to assign the middle mouse click to a custom action. Also it would probably be kind of awkward to attempt to do that since in MoI when you're in selection mode you don't see feedback on pointpicker things like object snaps, so it would be a kind of semi-blind (meaning without regular snap feedback) to try and do that as you're describing.

But the "Zoom area" button mentioned above is available at the top level UI, it's not on a nested sub-menu. It's the button on the bottom of a viewport here:




You can also set the rotation pivot point to the center of the selected objects by using the "Reset" button on that same viewport toolbar. Often times that's the easiest way to do it.

- Michael

Hello Michael,

thanks for the answer - and sharing your minds.
But one Thing I didn't understand - what is it caused by, that the Event for "click", can't select a custom command?
I understand the described catia - function like that:
The middle or a right click selects (maybe blind) an element or - if there is no hit -creates an intersection point with an invisible plane (depending of the Viewport alignment) and do an viewport reset.
Or is it in principle not possible to get click- and "mousebutton down Events alternatively?


Thanks in advance
and
have a nice day

Karsten

p.s: Maybe combinations of Buttons:-)

Hi Karsten,

> But one Thing I didn't understand - what is it caused by, that the Event for "click", can't
> select a custom command?

It just means that there is not currently any infrastructure in place to allow the middle click to be customized to do different actions.

Customizing middle mouse button behavior just does not happen automatically with every single program - there are things like UI that needs to be created to allow it to be changed. Currently there isn't anything set up to do that.

I have not really figured out what to do with the middle mouse click as of yet, it's possible that by default I'd like to make it pop up a toolbox of a few frequently used commands or something like that.

Because of the problem that I described that you wouldn't be able to get regular pointpicking snapping feedback, it would maybe be a little awkward for the mouse button to be configured like you are describing, so it could mean it would not be on a list of standard fixed behavior options but rather something that required some kind of more flexible and customizable script to be set up in response to the click.


> Or is it in principle not possible to get click- and "mousebutton down Events alternatively?

It is possible in principle, it's just not something that has been implement as of yet.

Sorry maybe I have misunderstood your original post - when you wrote "is it possible" I thought you were asking if it was possible to make the current version of MoI behave like that.

- Michael

Thank You Michael,
for wasting your time with my curiosity,

and Yes, my question was relating to later Versions.

A nice day to all
Karsten

No problem Karsten!

- Michael

When will we see the first v4 beta.

I am very curious, which way you will go next.

Hi Rudl,

> When will we see the first v4 beta.

Still quite a few months out at a minimum. I am making progress but there's still quite a bit left to do.

 

> I am very curious, which way you will go next.

The current priority for the rewrite is to make MoI 64-bit and also have a native Mac compiled version. Hopefully most everything else should remain the same at first.

- Michael

That's an *excellent* plan!

A mannequin (basic human - with 5.9 feet* - 180 cm*) would bei nice - only for a quick proportion-measurment* - even only a flat plane like in sketchup - maybe also a basic light/sun and basic flat shadows.

This would be cool :)

<< A mannequin (basic human - with 5.9 feet* - 180 cm*) would bei nice - only for a quick proportion-measurment*

This mannequin ? :)
http://bit.ly/moipat

no, not a 3D Object, maybe only as a personal hack ... ;) - just 2D Dummy in the 3D Space ... but he he ... maybe a dummy ther you can place an other 2D Pictureelement - png e.g. would be nice white or black = transparent/alpha - in the origin point. Like in sketchup :)

So take this one and make any thing you want!
(Alpha, cutout...)
Then import inside MOI anywhere you want!

Hi Lordfox,

> <...> maybe a dummy ther you can place an other 2D Pictureelement - png e.g. would
> be nice white or black = transparent/alpha - in the origin point. Like in sketchup :)

You could try using a background image for this, you can load one in using the View > Image commnad.

If you want transparent areas in the image, make sure the PNG image has alpha transparency in it.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

As I wrote the initial wishlist post using a previous account, I can't add the following to it:

• Adding full viewport navigation customization to the MoI preferences — the ability to assign view zooming (including a direction switch option), view rotation and view panning to any combination of keys and mouse controls. This would really help in seamlessly switching between 3D applications.

• Adding the moi.ini alternate triangular faces generation option "CentroidTriangulation" to the MoI export dialog options.

• Adding the moi.ini Undo memory size option "MaxMemorySizeMB" to the MoI preferences.

• SVG import / export.

Thanks!

— Metin

1. group/ungroup feature
2. command line for scripts