topic Re: 3D Window dimension Tool in Modeling

3D Window dimension Tool

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:20:27 GMT

Is there a way to make the Coordinate dimension tool show the relevant levels i want in 3D, but so the text is always facing the view set camera?

I can set it up for 1 camera, but then from another angle the text is unreadable.

screen shot attached to show what i mean.

Re: 3D Window dimension Tool

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:34:25 GMT

here it is from the first camera where you can read it!

Re: 3D Window dimension Tool

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:18:18 GMT

I think this could be done but you would have to get into GDL Scripting to do that.
GDL can get the location of the Camera and the Target from Global Variable. Then you could calculate the line from Camera to Target and you would have to rotate your 3D Text within that object to be on a plane perpendicular to the line from Camera to Target (a bit of mathematics).

But I see problems as well. First, I don't know how this would work in axonometric views (maybe it wouldn't). Second, there would inevitable be cases where you would not see you text because some element would overlap it when viewed from the Camera.

Maybe the fastest and easiest solution is to place multiple of these elements on different Layers for each used Camera position.

Re: 3D Window dimension Tool

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 03:17:49 GMT

Wouldn't the simplest solution be to use a 3d document rather than trying to show this in the 3d window?

Regards,
Scott