As a successful power user making physical objects, I'm wondering how you work without dimensioned drawings?
If you want to learn the distance between two arbitrary points on a part, you need to read the code, and sometimes even do some trig even if you wrote the code. Having markings on the axes is not the same thing: you really want to select two points on a drawing and say "show me this".
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As a successful power user making physical objects, I'm wondering how you work without dimensioned drawings?
If you want to learn the distance between two arbitrary points on a part, you need to read the code, and sometimes even do some trig even if you wrote the code. Having markings on the axes is not the same thing: you really want to select two points on a drawing and say "show me this".
This is my biggest wish for OpenSCAD.
Even better would be a procedural way to "measure" things on models returned by code.
e.g. a method that would return a sorted list of intersection points between a 3D line and a model.
This would be a killer feature for OpenSCAD.
This is all the more sad that the underlying engine (CGAL) does support this feature.