[Bf-funboard] Re: two small and useful RFEs ... (OOPS labels, drawing snap)

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:48:19AM -0500, Karim Nassar wrote:
> 
> >>1)
> >>please look:
> >>
> >>http://absurd.kozicki.pl:8435/blender/mockup/titles.png
> 
> A good Idea, I think. Thorsten & a few of us have gone back and forth a 
> bit on Object management, and touched on the OOPS inspector. This idea 
> would be a worthy addition to that discussion, I think.
> 
> Thorsten, Care to add to the ongoing journal?

Mmh, Annotations/Labels in OOPS schematic? Not this year ;-)
 
> >>2)
> >>and second RFE (no mockup, I don't know how to make mockup for this, 
> >>even if this is possible?).
> >>
> >>I asked on #blenderchat if I can set a drawing snap, and I've been told
> >>there is a snap for: grab, rotate, and size (in the upper pull-down menu 
> >>;)
> 
> IMHO, (and coming from a CAD background myself), design-time geometry 
> constraints is an area that needs a good looking-at in blender. There 
> have been a number of disparate notions on what is needed/usefull. 
> Perhaps its time that we took a concerted look at it. I have some 
> notions that I'd like to write-up, and I'll get a post together on the 
> topic.
> 
> --Karim

We should see if current constraints, dimensioning, relative positioning 
and maybe even snap (to grid, vertice, whatever) could be integrated into 
one single concept. I mean it's always about relations and constraining 
in 3d space.


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Thorsten