It’s been a minute since the latest update to this tool, and it’s been bugging me that it doesn’t uperate the “old” way, which was to automatically choose and set the Cplane Z for the default analysis. Instead, World Z is the default. I’m not getting command line options with -DraftAngleAnalysis, …

Hello- I don’t see why not, I guess… though since it is a panel and not a command that runs every time you want it (i.e. picking a new Cplane to work from every time) , it seems that no matter what, you’ll need the ‘Set’ operation fairly often. Once set to CPlane, it ought to stay there in a session…

It is. I’d like to be able to invoke the current Cplane each time I pull up the panel, if possible.

Imagine, if you will, a molded product with up to a half a dozen different pull directions. If I could use named CPlanes to set draft analysis directions from a macro, then I could use one click to analyze the draft in any of those directions. That’s what I’m really asking for here, I’m not being …

Hello- yes, I see - I’ll try to find out if that is possible, - currently you set the Cplane, click Set in the draft angle dialog and then click in the vp, correct? Would it be OK of the named cplanes showed up in the dropdown list in the draft angle dialog? Extend this list with named cplanes? [i…

It seems petty when you put it that way. :slight_smile: I realize that most people, ideally, have a single pull plane and only set this panel once per session. How do others deal with multiple pull planes in a model? I use Named Cplanes, that seems the most obvious to me. From a UI perspective, …

I was not trying to make it petty at all - that is a lot of clicks if you are doing it repeatedly, I just wanted to make sure I undertstand the current workflow in order to write something up to fix it if possible. My comment about extending the dropdown menu with named cplanes was incase that is so…

I know - it made me feel petty, though. Like I’ve already spent more time complaining than I ever will clicking with this one. I do think the tool has some room for improvement, and I appreciate your atttention. Extending the drop-down with named cplanes would totally do it for me.

The developer thinks, at the moment at least, that making this command macroable is quite do-able, I’ll make a bug report for him so it gets on the pile. RH-68833 DraftAngleAnalysis: command line version RH-68834 DraftAngleAnalysis: Allow named cplanes -Pascal

RH-68834 seems similar to RH-66761 I also miss V6’s _DraftAngleAnalysis behavior where the active view’s CPlane Z is automatically used as the pulling direction when the command is started. One way to bring this back would be to add CPlane Z of Active View to the Set direction by dropdown. When …

@spb I’ll add the CPlane Z of Active View and make the Set button update it. I’m not sure how confusing that will make the View Based option which requires that you pick the view but we’ll get it figured out so that the workflow of changing is less clicky.

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brian (Brian Gillespie) June 1, 2022, 3:27pm 13

RH-68834 is fixed in the latest WIP

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