Hi Michael,
my V4 beta feb 6 as run out and as the latest beta is feb 27 and will run out soon are you about to issue a new beta ?
Barry

Hi Barry, the current v4 beta won't expire until Oct 12, 2019 which isn't too soon. You should see this if you go to Help > About. Do you have a different expiration date there?

It won't be too much longer before the next beta something like a couple weeks.

- Michael

Hi Michael,
I didn’t install the feb 27 version and my thoughts where if the feb 6 version had expired 21 days later the feb 27 would expire. So rather than install feb 27 beta I would wait a few days for the latest beta.
Barry

Hi Barry, it will be more than a couple of days before the next beta so if you need to use it now the Feb-27 should do the trick.

- Michael

Hi Michael ...
New beta soon?
eric

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Sorry. I spent too much time drawing dimensions today.

I'm wondering how much control there will be for adjusting precision - decimals and fractions??

Hi eric, it's really close! I keep finding areas for dimensions where I was going to cut corners but instead I've gone ahead with more functionality.

Like I was going to originally have only screen-aligned text, but now I've got an option for either screen aligned or dimension aligned text.

I was going to have just one basic arrowhead, but now I've got a choice between Arrows, Ticks, Open arrows or dots.

I was going to have everything in the same font but now there can be different fonts.

I was going to have just single lines of text but now I've got support for multiple lines of text.

So it has taken some additional time to flesh out each of these areas but I think it will be worth it since it will be much more likely that they will be useful for you.

Here's what it looks like at the moment:






They are very close to being functional. Some of the main remaining areas are implementing UI for controlling these different options and also setting up the commands for drawing them at the moment they are only loaded from .3dm files made in Rhino.


- Michael

Hi Terry,

re:
> I'm wondering how much control there will be for adjusting precision - decimals and fractions??

Well I was planning on having settings similar to the UI precision options currently under Options > General > "Decimal display" and if you are using feet or inches units you should be able to choose between decimal display or feet & inches display with fractions. But I probably won't have a general fractional display separate from "Feet & Inches" for now.

- Michael

Thank you Michael. I like what you are doing. Do you know yet at what level of precision fraction will be displayed - 1/8", 1/16", 1/32"...?

Hi Michael ...
Thanks for all the extra effort you are putting into dimensions. It looks awesome and well worth waiting for.
cheers,
eric

Hi Terry,

> Do you know yet at what level of precision fraction will be displayed - 1/8", 1/16", 1/32"...?

My plan for "feet & inches" dimensions will be that you can choose the precision same as you do for the MoI UI under Options > General :



There will be a default value that you can set for what newly created dimensions will start out as and you'll be able to change it on individual ones.

- Michael

That sound perfect.

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Can we center that all group ? (don't shown on your images)

Hi Pilou, yes on multi-line text there is going to be an option for alignment: left, center, right, or justified.

Here's what it looks like with center alignment:



- Michael

Cool stuff!

Perfect!

Really good stuff Michael !

Hi Michael,

I would ask you only, if it is possible to align the dimension description/text above the line like in technical drawings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_drawing#/media/File:DIN_69893_hsk_63a_drawing.png ) ?

Thank you,
Mik

Wow, that's great news!

Blocks of text will be very useful.

Marc

Really cool stuff! Thanks for all the hard work Michael!