Rhino WIP 8 UX - Object Properties

[benjamin.moulton]

Minor suggestion for for the object properties tab:
It may be useful to add degree and point count directly to the the object properties menu without having to use the “details” button. Also whether a curve is subd friendly or not.

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

I was playing with this idea, but think the object properties tab is way to overcrowded to add it there. What about something like this:

[benjamin.moulton]

Yes. This would be a great alternative. I like the fact that the Curve info dialogue doesn’t lock the the viewport. I will often import data from other sculptors and want to see this info at a glance. A similar example for surfaces you’d be equally as useful in my opinion. I don’t always want to call _Rebuild in order to see this data or turn on control points to get an idea of the spans or degree.

[EricM (Eric Paul Marvets)]

@Gijs, A dockable panel like that would be great. A few requests for the info panel:

• it shows the last selected object for multi-selects
  • ^ useful for figuring out a set of crvs to send to _Loft Loose
• obj name if user assigned via Properties
• context info by obj type, not a static set of fields
  • Pt: location
  • Line/Polyline: bbox size, start, end, len, spans, open/closed
  • Arc/Circle: start, end, len, arc center, radius
  • Crv: bbox size, start, end, len, deg/spans
  • PolyCrv: bbox size, start, end, len, segments count, closed/open
  • Srf: bbox size, U deg/spans, V deg/spans
  • PolySrf: bbox size, srf count, open/closed
  • Block: bbox size, block def name, up to date (linked), non/uniform scaled

I’d omit easily inferred info, i.e. line or polyline are both deg1, line doesn’t need a span count, but polyline does, an arc’s radius gives more info than bounding box size, etc. That way, you can give the info box a higher info density.

[Eugen]

@Gijs

What about something like this

Nice!
Why not generalize this (non-modal, dockable) dialog for any object? Curves, breps, … with length, area, volume…
Reminds me of the “object info” panel in archicad.

Btw:
When curves are selected, why are these properties displayed?

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

I’ve made a new topic here for the script I was playing with:

CurveInfo (script on Rhino 8 PackageManager)

I uploaded a script I was working on a while back to the packagemanager (Look for CurveInfo in Rhino 8 Packagemanager) I initially started this script to see if I could add a bit more 2D curve info for graphic design usage in industries that use 2D cutters / plotters. I wanted to put it out here as a conversation starter, to see if this is any useful at all, what works and what not, as input for Rhino 9 Currently this is what it can do: Give information about single selected curves only. Re…