[Bf-committers] SOC Project Ideas?

Alexander Ewering blender at instinctive.de
Wed Apr 19 11:38:11 CEST 2006


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Doug Ollivier wrote:

> Snap to edge/face (slide the vertex along the edge its snapping to or on the 
> plane of the face)
> Snap to Vert
> Snap to Centre (of edge or face....)
> Snap to bound box.....
> Snap to Normal (so you can move a vert away from an edge along the normal of 
> the edge its snapping to)
>
> Snapping is more important in CAD packages which don't actually use Verts as 
> their main construction method,  as then you have functions like Snap to 
> tangent, snap to curve, snap to centre (of a circle for example)  snap to 
> quadrant......
>
> blender could still use Snap to curve, snap to tangent... if its implemented 
> for curves also.  but then blenders snapping would need to access the 
> original curve, not the drawn curve (which is verts)
>
> dimensioning should be 2d (or rotatable via an angle) and should measure the 
> distance between two choosen points,  these two choosen points should be 
> anything from verts to curves to edges....  the measurement display should 
> then be moveable indipendantly (as an object) with projection lines going to 
> the two points)  Dimensioning should have similar properties/panels as 
> fonts/text

All things that I'd like to see too, and which I'd happily implement :)

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