Hi Michael,

I'm experimenting the same problem as Tech (msg 9526.84) under MacOs 10.9.5.
Some notes : In the previous beta version, the Save dialog was not a Mac OS 'sheet' (ie tied to the Title Bar') but the other dialogs, such as 'Edit Style' were. However, clicking on Add or Edit would bring the 'sheet' over the already open 'Edit Style' 'sheet'.
In the new version, they are under the 'Edit Style' 'sheet' and impossible to reach.
I have to press the Escape key to close them or blind type the name of a new style.
This confirms that it's really underneath.

The Save Dialog is now a 'sheet' in the new beta, but this is not a problem as there are no sub dialogs to activate.

As another subject, I would like to mention that when a Mac user tries to enter the diameter symbol 'ø' as an anotation prefix or suffix (or using the Text tool) by using the keyboard entry alt+o, it activates the Open dialog instead of entering the symbol.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Michel

Hi Marc,

> Concerning dashed lines I thought it would be easy to do because you showed them early on in your process.
> I guess it's more complicated that it looks. I was thinking of users who doesn't rely on other programs to edit PDF.

Yes, just having them in the display is sort of the tip of the iceberg. There is a lot of work involved in planning the UI for managing them and having a strategy for import/export to different file formats.

- Michael

Hi Mip,

re:
> I'm experimenting the same problem as Tech (msg 9526.84) under MacOs 10.9.5.

Can you please send me an e-mail at moi@moi3d.com and I'll send you a build with a fix for this to test.


> As another subject, I would like to mention that when a Mac user tries to enter the diameter
> symbol 'ø' as an anotation prefix or suffix (or using the Text tool) by using the keyboard entry
> alt+o, it activates the Open dialog instead of entering the symbol.

Can you look in your shortcut keys in MoI under Options > Shortcut keys, is there an entry there for Alt+O ? If there is that's probably a remnant from v3, if you remove it can you then put it in ok?

Thanks, - Michael

Hi Michael,

>Can you please send me an e-mail at moi@moi3d.com and I'll send you a build with a fix for this to test.

I just sent you my e-mail.

>Can you look in your shortcut keys in MoI under Options > Shortcut keys, is there an entry there for Alt+O ?
> If there is that's probably a remnant from v3, if you remove it can you then put it in ok?

About the alt+o shortcut, I never thought to check in the existing shortcuts.
I deleted all of the standard Edit Shortcuts that already have equivalents in Ctrl or Cmd and it's OK.

Thanks again !

- Michel

Hi, suddently, strange things hapens with my dimensions ...?
It seems it's because the object is large.

Maybe the Scale is too big because when you reduce it all works fine !
Scale 0.5

Hi moujiik, yes there's a bug in the text display that will happen if your object has coordinates larger that 2500 units. I've got it fixed for the next beta which I should be able to put out in a few more days.

Thanks, - Michael

Michael,
I may have found a bug?
When I do a simple offset to the out side I get extra lines original line is the blue line the offset is the orange line and the red lines are the unwanted lines.

thanks,
Val

Hi Val, yup that's a bug although it's not new for v4 it's also present in v3 and earlier. The bug has to do with the process of extending the offset to make a new sharp point on it. The extension method used is a reflection method and when it makes a long reflected extension that's what makes the kind of crazy excess stuff. I've looked into it a little bit before and I'll take another look but it may be a fairly sensitive thing to mess with right near the end of the beta process so it might need to wait for a bit for a fix.

Thanks, - Michael

HI Michael,
Trying to create and PDF with dimensions but they drop out. Any advice welcome.
thanks
Alex.

Hi Alex,

> HI Michael,
> Trying to create and PDF with dimensions but they drop out. Any advice welcome.
> thanks
> Alex.

Yes exporting of dimensions is not finished up yet, it's probably the last thing that will get finished before the v4 final release is ready.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Since it sounds like it could be a while before we are able to export dimensions, is there a way to bind a background color change to a hot key. I like to work with a gray background and would like to be able to quickly change it to white for a screen shot of the dimensions, then back to gray again. I hope that makes sense.

Thanks
Terry

Hi Terry, if you set up the following on a shortcut key it will switch the background to white, generate a viewport image with the white background and put it on the system clipboard and then reset the background back to its previous value:

script: /* Custom screenshot */ var prev_background = moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor; moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF; moi.grid.display = false; moi.grid.showXYAxes = false; moi.view.showAxisIcon = false; moi.ui.getActiveViewport().renderToClipboard( 4000, 2500 ); moi.grid.display = true; moi.grid.showXYAxes = true; moi.view.showAxisIcon = true; moi.view.viewportBackgroundColor = prev_background;

Hopefully that will help, let me know if it isn't quite right.

- Michael

Perfect. Thank you Michael.

Hi Michael,

I also had a look to the new V4 version and like the new functions and options a lot. The new dimension function is very intuitive AND fast in handling.

For information:
I recognized a behaviour I did not had before with the V3. This morning when waking up the WIN10 machine while MOI3D was opened when shutting it down into sleep-mode yesterday, the draw area keeps black with no options to get it re-drawn. All other areas of MOI3D (like menus, etc.) are visible as usual and working. All other Windows program that were opened
during shut down are visible and working. Graphics card is a Quadro K2000.

Greetings,
Joerg

Hi Joerg, thanks for reporting the wake-from-sleep problem. Did the viewports stay black even after doing something that would make them redraw like zooming or panning inside them?

Thanks, - Michael

Hi Michael,

I think I tried most options to force a re-draw (like zooming, panning, drawing in the dark, minimizing Moi3d-window, maximizing again, etc.). Screen kept black. Restarting MOI of course solved the issue ;o)

Greetz,
Joerg

Hi, i had the same problem with a quadro card (m2000m). I solved it with another driver. Maybe it's some kind of driver issue ?
Moujiik

Hi Joerg, yes it is probably video driver related. If you keep running into it I'd recommend checking on the NVidia web site to see if there is an updated driver available.

The reason you may have not seen this with V3 is that MoI v3 used the Direct3D9 system for connecting to the video card while MoI v4 uses Direct3D11 instead.

- Michael

Thank you for the release, Michael.
How can I avoid dimensions and texts to scale up and down when I zoom in and out the window?



Thank you,
Massimo.